On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 01:34:03 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (gnu/linux is not used > > because it's a little embarassing to combine slashes and dashes there). > > The GNU official name is i386-linux-gnu, which avois the slashes try any > recent config.guess).
yeah, you're right. i was just talking about Debian's interpretation of the standrads but i prefer the i386-linux-gnu from too. > > But keep in mind that GNU/Linux users don't call it i386-linux but > > just i386. Since the GNU flavor is at the same level as the GNU/Linux one, > > we shouldn't call it i386-gnu because this is assuming GNU/Linux is "normal" > > or "standard" while we a > > This sentence is truncated. that was up to say that we're mutants but you got the point. > Any chance that we can slowly convert from i386 > to i386-linux in the GNU/Linux context? At least for places where it isn't > some complicated operation (like it is for the ftp archive)? yes it should be started, someone could contact the ftp maintainers? -- Robert Millan Debian GNU user zeratul2 wanadoo es http://getyouriso.org/ > > > If your point is that the term "i386" itself is wrong... well then i'm out > > of context ;) > > I actually don't know what I am talking about, as I never did a CD, nor was > I careful about the names the CDs carry. I think your response was quite > appropriate. I was thinking it refers to the Debian architecture name > "i386" (as binary-i386), in which case the corresponding Debian GNU/Hurd > i386 architecture name would be hurd-i386. why not GNU? say, the BSD port (if someday comes to existance) will be called i386-bsd, why not calling the GNU port like i386-gnu? just like we shouldn't say i386-linux but i386-linux-gnu, we should name this port like i386-gnu or at least i386-hurd-gnu. (i still hold combining the Hurd and GNU makes a redundancy) besides, i think we should find a new name convention. In a near future, we'll have 4 different kernels (linux, hurd/mach, bsd and win32) in our debian system and i think considering all them as ports is a bit outwearing, this would make 4*6=24 ports in the distribution.
