[email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> But at the same time I hesitate to officially discard the GNU Hurd by >> saying that Linux is the kernel of the GNU system. > > Guix does not discard the GNU Hurd (there has been work to support it), > but considers GNU Linux-libre the most important target of these > two---let's not lie to ourselves. > > Furthermore, Linux-libre is also a GNU package. > >> 2. I don't want to downplay the existing free GNU/Linux distros than >> we now give them. They are important. > > I understand the concern. > > Yet, I don't think we're downplaying them. First, for 30 years, GNU has > claimed to be working on delivering an operating system, so it should > come as no surprise when the last building block is added to make it a > reality. Second, Guix takes a different approach, and arguably occupies > a different place from Trisquel, gNewSense, etc.
linux-libre is without any doubt a very interesting project and a fundamental piece of all of the free distros already mentioned in this thread but will such a system, which uses Linux as its kernel, be called GNU or GNU/Linux? Regards, Giuseppe
