Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The console clearly is exclusively a feature of the kernel. > > The console is implemented by the kernel, but you use it to log in > to the whole system.
There are embedded Linux systems that are most definitely not GNU, and for example the system at <URL:http://www.skarnet.org/poweredby.html> runs Linux, but not the GNU system. > Thus, both "Linux console" and "GNU/Linux console" are justifiable. > > If we call it the "Linux console", everyone who isn't a wizard will > misunderstand and think it refers to the "Linux operating system". > The only way to avoid promoting this misunderstanding is to call it > the "GNU/Linux console". We can't demand correctness from others with regard to GNU/Linux that we are not willing to provide ourselves. > Neither name is perfectly right, so my decision is to use the one > that doesn't hurt the GNU project. In my opinion that should be the one that does not expose us as hypocrites: that hurts more than anything else could... I already proposed a wording that would make clear that we are talking about the kernel here. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
