On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:50:08AM -0700, Grant Bowman wrote: > * Richard Kreuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020512 22:44]: > > GNU specific annex: > > > > 6.2 GNU > > > > This is the annex for the GNU operating system. We sometimes refer > > to this as the GNU/Hurd system, in cases where it is necessary to > > distinguish the GNU system from other systems that use large amounts > > of GNU software. > > Good, but I think this does not acknowledge that GNU/Linux is still a > GNU system.
If you want to start a GNU/Linux vs. Linux discussion on that mailinglist be my guest. > > The GNU system is special compared to other UNIX-like operating > > systems in the way it treats the filesystem namespace. The filesystem > > namespace is very flexible, you can do anything with it what you > > want. That's why it is reasonable to specify where you should find > > directories and files, but not the way those directories and files > > should get there. > > > > As a rule, distributors who wish to maintain compatibility between > > their distributions of GNU/Hurd, GNU/Linux, or other systems may > > maintain symbolic links to files whose locations on GNU systems differ > GNU/Hurd? > > from their locations on other systems. This accomodates programs with > > "hard-coded" filenames. For example, files that should be found under > > /libexec may be symbolic links, or may be the targets of symbolic > > links located under /sbin, /bin, and so forth. > > Generally, I think GNU alone is ambiguous and shouldn't be used given > the climate today. A climate is never a reason for not doing the right thing. The only reason the name GNU/Hurd exists is because GNU might be ambigous, but the paragraph before it already speaks about GNU/Linux so that doesn't really matter. We could say "Hurd-based GNU system" in the first line to clear everything up. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC ID: jeroen@openprojects GNU supporter - http://www.gnu.org
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