Brandon Invergo <[email protected]> skribis: > Personally I disagree with Debian referring to itself as an operating > system, since it's clearly a distribution of software that can comprise > operating system
I also dislike of that tendency to replace “distro” by “operating system” (and that applies to pretty much all GNU/Linux and Linux-and-no-GNU distros out there.) Hopefully, hackers and engineers understand the technical difference. At the same time, BSD means “Berkeley Software Distribution”, so the distinction between “operating system” and “distribution” has probably always been a bit fuzzy. Regardless, the question we should ask ourselves is what the goal of the GNU project is. My understanding is that it is to deliver an operating system in the technical sense of BSD, rather than a mere collection of loosely-integrated packages. Ludo’.
