"Noah Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 05/12/2007, mike3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I do not understand why *names* are the >>appropriate place to give credit. What's the reason, anyway? > > For the same reason [...]
I think it is enough to feed the trolls with a reference. In particular since it is easy to mess up: > Of course, the proper name for the operating system is GNU and Linux > provides one of it's kernels. The combination of these two words is > GNU/Linux. If you used Sun's kernel you would call the system > GNU/Solarix and if you used the BSD operating system (as an > alternative to GNU) you would be running BSD/Solarix. There is no such system as "Solarix", and Sun calls the _complete_ system "Solaris" with a "SunOS" kernel. So you would actually be talking about GNU/SunOS in that hypothetical case (and that only when indeed the kernel is all that you have taken from Solaris). Where you have a GNU userland, but augmented with all of the system utilities from Solaris (not an entirely unpopular setup), things become quite muddier. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
