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

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I much prefer simple things, and referring to the distribution as "Fedora" does it for me on a few levels.

FNU? Perhaps in the future the Linux kernel may fall out of favour for something else, hey why not just cut to the eventual chase and call it systemd-fedora.

On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 at 22:21, Alexey A. <hakavlad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fedora is. Linux isn't. Linux is just an OS kernel

Linux (/ˈlinʊks/ (listen) LEEN-uuks or /ˈlɪnʊks/ LIN-uuks[9]) is a
family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux
kernel.

ср, 10 мар. 2021 г. в 01:35, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On 09.03.2021 16:43, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Fedora Linux is an OS.
>
> Fedora is. Linux isn't. Linux is just an OS kernel. It cannot be used
> without helpers like GNU libraries and utilities.
>
> > We are not part of GNU, and in fact listed by them as specifically not
> > endorsed because we have policy disagreements.
>
> But we are still using GCC, GNU coreutils, glibc, libstdc++, etc. That's
> why we cannot name an OS without the GNU prefix.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>    Vitaly Zaitsev (vitaly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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