> But I think Stallman is wrong in demanding that the system be called GNU/Linux. > The GNU project is one of the most important ones to donate packages toany > "Linux" distribution, but the fact of the matter is that aside from the > compilation tools (gcc, binutils, glibc, etc.) GNU's stuff is becoming more > and more optional as we speak, and other projects (Xfree86, KDE, Mozilla,
You completely miss RMS' point. Did you ever read his explanation (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html), or only what his oponents claim his reason is? (or the slashdot version). This has nothing to do with specific programs, but has to do with the system. Unlike Linus, who decided to write a kernel, Knuth, who wrote a typesetting system, etc. the gnu project was about creating a free _system_. They had no problem using free software they did not write, and they wrote whatever pieces were missing. When any linux distributor started to create a distribution (RH, Yggdrassil, SLS, etc.) they did not start from Linux kernel and started adding programs - they started with gnu system + Linux kernel and added programs. > etc.) are becoming more and more important. A person might use a "Linux" > machine rarely using GNU utilities: he might be mostly using KDE graphical > tools to browse directories, files, and so on, and when he does need a > shell he might be logged in through openssh (non-GNU), using Zsh (non-GNU), > editing with Vim (non-GNU), programming in Perl (non-GNU), compressing with > bzip2 (non-GNU), etc. You get the picture. Of course I get the picture. If we ignore gcc, glibc, binutils, fileutils, bash, shellutils, texutils, gnome, autoconf, emacs, gdb, ghostscript, less, groff, then we see that we don't use any software written by gnu) -- Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
