Quoth Alexandre Oliva: > > I'd really appreciate it if you called the distributions by > > their preferred names > > Now here's a twist: if you replace something as fundamental as the > kernel in a distro, is it still the same distro?
Well yes, I would say so. As an example, Gentoo has ebuilds for several differently patched versions of the Linux kernel, and the FreeBSD kernel. I believe Debian are similar in this regard. But I see that as largely irrelevant to this discussion. These are builds intended to be installed on top of a specific distribution. > But while on the one hand we don't mind that people use such distros if > they're careful to not give up their freedoms or encourage others to do > so, on the other we don't want to steer others towards these distros > ourselves, for this may lead people who don't know better to make > mistakes. > > I see the two issues as orthogonal, and the arguments you presented here > are pretty much all related with the “using”, rather than with the > “promoting”, which is the relevant issue to decide whether or not to > name the distros. Yes, thanks for clarifying this, I agree. If you're really concerned that mentioning the names of distributions could be seen as promoting them, I'd suggest putting them in a separate section, with a note above explaining that they aren't recommended as they allow easy access to non-free software, with a link to the FSFs opinions on classifying distributions as free. > Now, it may be that Genfree is not as good or clear a pun as the others, > so the reference is not as self-evident. Any ideas on how to fix that? Please don't try to close this discussion down before we've reached some sort of agreement. Thanks, I look forward to hearing back from you. Sincerely, Nick -- GPG : 0x04E4653F 9732D7C7A441D79EFDF094F61F48567404E4653F
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