On 3/22/21 6:56 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
My main problem is that for a good portion of the 1990's the GNU operating system was HURD and any and all work on Linux was seen as a major distraction and removal of resources from the more important operating system. In the early 1990's, I don't remember the GNU hackers at the AI lab calling their systems GNU/Solaris or GNU/Ultrix or GNU/BSD when they had replaced various parts with GNU utilities.
That's partially true, they didn't (as far as I know). But I think they viewed that situation -- using a kernel other than their own -- as temporary. As far as I know, they referred to their OS as GNU consistently, and only started using the variant name GNU/Linux when it became clear that the arrangement of having a GNU OS with a kernel other than their own was a long-term arrangement. That all seems very logical, to me.
People were told that working on Linux was a distraction and should be a non-goal instead of working on HURD...
As a rationale, your explanation as a whole seems retaliatory, to me. "The GNU project encouraged its volunteers to work on HURD instead of Linux, so we'll not speak their name because this makes us unhappy."
That doesn't seem like the kind of respectful, friendly environment that Fedora explicitly is trying to foster. And that's why I think the name "Fedora", by itself, is better. That name is neutral to the topic of whether Linux or GNU/Linux is the OS that Fedora extends, rather than a statement about our feelings toward the GNU project.
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