On 22/11/14 09:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, Brandon, > > Brandon Invergo <[email protected]> skribis: > >> I would argue that rather than talking about producing The Official GNU >> System, we should be talking about producing a *reference* distribution >> of the GNU system. The Guix guys are effectively doing that in my >> opinion and I think it's great. Now, instead of us saying "these are >> the strictly necessary components", we're saying "here is, to us, an >> excellent way to put together the GNU system" with an extra advantage of >> being able to highlight some GNU Project packages that don't normally >> get included in the other distros (again like lsh vs openssh). > > I agree that it’s a nice constructive way to view things. > > Yet, the question of how to name things is interesting. While (say) the > “Debian operating system” (sic, as per www.debian.org) can indeed be > downloaded and installed, the “GNU operating system” seemingly cannot, > to the www.gnu.org visitor¹. This is arguably a hindrance for GNU as a > project. > > My 2¢, > Ludo’. > > ¹ On that topic, see the analysis Mike Gran made a while back: > <http://lcinexile.blogspot.fr/2013/01/new-gnu-recruits.html>. >
Mike's analysis illustrates well some of the important problems I see in the GNU Project. And they can be fixed and there is people willing to fix them. -- Luis Felipe López Acevedo http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/ ID Klefo PGP : 0x8A296B99 Marko fingrala: 7ED8 4963 C881 647C 9DA0 FDE6 881B 91ED 8A29 6B99
