Differences between current version and revision by previous author of GNU/Linux.
Other diffs: Previous Major Revision, Previous Revision, or view the Annotated Edit History
| Newer page: | version 7 | Last edited on Friday, February 18, 2005 11:24:49 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Tuesday, May 18, 2004 4:33:21 am | by StuartYeates | Revert |
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
-A name for a system with a [Linux] kernel and
the [GNU] UserSpace utilities and applications.
+A name for a system with a [Linux] as
the [Kernel] and
[GNU] as the
UserSpace utilities and applications.
-The hybrid nature is a product of the fact that [GNU]'s TheHurd isn't yet production grade and [Linux] doesn't come with many
UserSpace utilities and applications.
+The hybrid nature is a product of the fact that [GNU]'s TheHurd isn't yet production grade and [Linux] doesn't come with (m)any
UserSpace utilities and applications.
+
+However, neither the [XServer] and corresponding applications nowadays expected on a workstation nor [Apache], SendMail/[Qmail]/[Postfix]/[Exim], [Samba], and other daemons required to run a server are written by the [GNU] project. Since the [GNU] utilities only make up a fraction of the UserSpace code required for any modern system the legitimacy of the "[GNU/Linux]" term has been questioned as arbitrary: one might ask why a system running the [Apache] WebServer isn't called [ASF]/[GNU]/[Linux]
.
