> 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 are many different variations "out there" and they all have > different names. If you're running > Debian/Ubuntu/Gentoo/RedHat/Suse you're probably running a > GNU/Linux system. If you're running OS X
Except most of those aren't GNU systems. Go read the definition of the GNU system at gnu.org, and you'll see that most of them do not meet it. They are non-GNU systems that happen to have all the components of the GNU system included, but also contain proprietary non-free components that are not allowed in the GNU system. Ofcourse the meet the criteria of a GNU system, that are variants of it. Just including some non-free software doesn't magically convert a GNU system into a non-GNU system. You are confusion two things, _the_ GNU system and _a_ GNU system, GNU/Linux is _a_ GNU system, but it is not _the_ GNU system. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
