On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:50:15PM -0400, Nicholas Parsons wrote: > > Hey William, > > > > The correct term for linux is "GNU Linux"....haha, none of that > > hurd stuff. > > No it's not. Linus owns the name "Linux" and he does not refer to it as > GNU Linux. > > The kernel is Linux. Period. What Red Hat distributes is Red Hat Linux > 9. There is no GNU in the name. No matter how many people want GNU > added to the name, it's Red Hat's decision on how to name their product, > and GNU is not there. GNU isn't even mentioned on my 8.0 Professional > box unless it's in the white on grey text on the bottom that I can not > read. > > IMHO, GNU doesn't belong there. Sure, there are a lot of GNU components > there, and that work is definitely appreciated. However, there are a > lot of other very significant components there too, and we don't call it > Red Hat GNU XFree86 KDE Gnome OpenOffice Linux. PLEASE do not feed the TROLLS!! This has been beat to death and no one is going to change anyone's mind!! -- ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx My current SpamTrap -------> mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx
