Re: F35 Change: "Fedora Linux" in /etc/os-release

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On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 10:43:32AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 04:28:54PM +0100, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> > >"Fedora" is the name of our project. Our general-purpose Linux
> > >distribution is "Fedora Linux". Let's refer to it that way in the
> > >OS itself.
> > 
> > 1. "Fedora" is shorter and better, IMO. The "Core" suffix was
> > dropped years ago.
> 
> Check this out from back in the day:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Logo-history-variations.jpg
> 
> Under that scheme, it was obvious that we did a number of different things,
> all of them "Fedora". The merger with Extras and creation of a real
> community project was essential to our ongoing success, but it also
> introduced a community / output confusion. This has gotten worse in recent
> years as we introduce new and different things, leading to things like
> people saying "Oh, that's in CoreOS, not Fedora", where the shorthand is
> more confusing than helpful.
> 
> 
> > 2. Why Linux and not GNU/Linux? Linux is just a kernel. GNU/Linux is an OS.

http://pedrocr.pt/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux/

tl;dr: 8% gnu (by some measure) in 2011. That number has probably
fallen quite a bit since then.

Zbyszek
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