[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:03:55AM +, Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Kevin Kreamer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the case of a NetBSD libc, you could use
Debian NBSD/NBSD
basically having the first half signify which libc is used.
Wouldn't that be a major
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:41:46AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
You are currently saying that the GNU in GNU/Linux is justified by the
glibc and not by any other GNU software, because these GNU software
are common on other unixes.
Why? If you are right that others unixes uses widely GNU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we ever get a replacement libc that would really work as
replacement... on such system GNU claims would become much weaker. Not
that there was a serious chance of that happening - drop-in replacement
of glibc on Linux would be a lot of work and so far none of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:41:46AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
You are currently saying that the GNU in GNU/Linux is justified by the
glibc and not by any other GNU software, because these GNU software
are common on other unixes.
Why? If you are right that others
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:15:37PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
Why not?
You said what I expected from you: you revealed that you disbelieve
that the system should be called GNU/Linux. Good to know in this kind
of discussion.
raised brows
I'm not a True Believer, if that's what you mean.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:56:15PM +0100, Julian Mehnle wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we ever get a replacement libc that would really work as
replacement... on such system GNU claims would become much weaker. Not
that there was a serious chance of that happening - drop-in replacement
Mathieu == Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mathieu If we follow your theory, it means that if someday another
Mathieu system use the glibc, we should remove the GNU from the
Mathieu GNU/Linux name.
FWIW, BeOS uses glibc.
~velco
Julian Mehnle dijo [Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:56:15PM +0100]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we ever get a replacement libc that would really work as
replacement... on such system GNU claims would become much weaker. Not
that there was a serious chance of that happening - drop-in replacement
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:26:27PM +0200, Momchil Velikov wrote:
Mathieu == Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mathieu If we follow your theory, it means that if someday another
Mathieu system use the glibc, we should remove the GNU from the
Mathieu GNU/Linux name.
rereads
Arrgh...
My
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:06:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:56:15PM +0100, Julian Mehnle wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we ever get a replacement libc that would really work as
replacement... on such system GNU claims would become much weaker.
Not
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:41:46AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
You are currently saying that the GNU in GNU/Linux is justified by the
glibc and not by any other GNU software, because these GNU software
are common on other unixes.
Maybe what he was saying, but that's obviously not the real issue.
Mathieu Roy wrote:
...
When I'm told that a system is running GNU/whatever, I expect first to
find there GNU coreutils, GNU bash, GNU Emacs, GNU Compiler
Collection, gzip, GNU awk,GNU make, the GNU Debugger, GNU sysutils,
GNU tar, GNUpg, GNU grep, GNU mailutils, GNU ncurses, GNU readline,
GNU
Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Julian Mehnle dijo [Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:56:15PM +0100]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we ever get a replacement libc that would really work as
replacement... on such system GNU claims would become much weaker. Not
that there was a serious chance of
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Mathieu Roy wrote:
...
When I'm told that a system is running GNU/whatever, I expect first to
find there GNU coreutils, GNU bash, GNU Emacs, GNU Compiler
Collection, gzip, GNU awk,GNU make, the GNU Debugger, GNU sysutils,
GNU tar, GNUpg, GNU grep, GNU
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