On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:19 AM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 08:24:29PM -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > >> Groton, MA, April 6 2011: Today the GNOME Desktop project releases > >> GNOME 3.0, its first major release in nine years. A revolutionary > >> new user interface, new features for developers, and a stronger > >> accessibility foundation make this a historic moment for the Linux > >> desktop. > > > > No time to read the entire thing, just one comment: > > A while ago there was some agreement on when to use GNU/Linux and when > > to use Linux. I forgot what the decision was, but suggest to check the > > message is in line. > > In general, when talking about distributions or systems, we can avoid > using either "Linux" or "GNU/Linux" altogether. When talking about the > kernel, Linux is best. But in general, GNOME is a free software > graphical user environment - no need to talk about the underlying kernel > at all for the most part. > > We can avoid everything by simplifying to Unix-like operating systems. As Brian pointed out, we support a number of other OSes like HPUX, Solaris, and FreeBSD. I'm not sure about availability of GNOME 3 on those OSes but historically GNOME ran on them. I think on one of the revisions in gobby I tried to avoid talking about "Linux" just for that reason.. Great work though, Sumana! We'll keep wordsmithing and improving it. sri
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