Hi Nicolas! On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:54:51PM +0200, Nicolas Souchu wrote: > > 3. What does "Ging" stand for? > It stands for "Ging Is Not Ging". It is, to my knowledge, the first recursive > acronym with an implicit contradiction. > > GNU is Not Unix
"GNU is Not Unix" is not an implicit contradiction. It can be argued wether GNU is Unix or not, but that depends on external information. :) OTOH, my POV on this is the same as NetBSD's: http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/call-it-a-duck.html > It is a fork of GNU/kFreeBSD or a new distribution? It's a Debian-based distribution, like Morphix. I don't think it's a fork since Ging follows the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD codebase very closely and all mergeable changes are pushed back (and I intend to keep it this way). The key differences are: - Ging aims to produce a usable, complete environment in LiveCD, whereas the official Debian GNU/kFreeBSD LiveCD is just a means for installing Debian. Also, Ging images can only be generated from a Debian GNU/kFreeBSD system, whereas the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD LiveCD can be built from any Debian system. - Ging provides only free software. While this is also true for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD at the moment, future versions will become official in Debian, and so provide access to non-free/contrib, and include base-config that advertises them. Ging, OTOH, has a compromise to remain this way even after Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is official in Debian. -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
