On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:11:15AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:38:02PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:23:39AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > > > GNU/Hurd was the term used for referring to GNU to avoid confusion with > > > its variant GNU/Linux, since they say "Gentoo Linux" in first place i > > > don't see what they mean to distinguish GNU from.. > > > > > > > I decided that "Gentoo Hurd" isn't as aesthetically pleasing as "Gentoo > > GNU/Hurd" is. <G> > > well, "Gentoo GNU" might or might not be aesthetically pleasing, but it > makes more sense to avoid redundancy when there is not a "Gentoo GNU/Linux" > to contrast with. > > see http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.en.html#q1-2 >
Yeah, I was. Actually, I refer to Gentoo as Gentoo GNU/Linux regardless of what's on the website (because I feel GNU/Linux is the right thing to say). I find that Gentoo GNU/Hurd makes it clear that it's not Linux. I feel that "Gentoo GNU" may confuse people - it'll confuse people who know only of GNU in connection of Linux and it'll confuse people who are used to hearing the Hurd called just "Hurd." Gentoo GNU/Hurd clarifies that it's the Gentoo distribution with the GNU userland combined with the Hurd. -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
