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

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:15 AM Robbi Nespu
<robbinespu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I got mixed feeling, I understand the reason why but I don't quite
> understand why you don't want to use "Fedora GNU/Linux". Read you
> comment on others email but the is not much details. Could you explain
> again in details?

>From the Community Blog post[1]:

> Why not use “Fedora GNU+Linux” or some similar name? We want to be easy to say. The more words we add, the harder that is. And while GNU is an important part of Fedora Linux, there are many other packages that make Fedora Linux what it is. “Linux” is, for better or worse, the commonly-understood phrasing, so let’s just use that.

[1] https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-is-a-community-fedora-linux-is-our-os/

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