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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Thursday, December 4, 2003 7:38:44 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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-[GNU]'s Not [Unix].
+[Recursive | RecursiveAcronym] [Acronym] for
[GNU]'s Not [Unix], a project working on the [GNU] OperatingSystem
.
-Find out more about the
[GNU Project|http://www.gnu.org/
].
+They are making a
[Kernel
] called TheHurd and a set of UserSpace utilities
.
-GNU Are working on a GNU OperatingSystem
, using
[TheHurd
] as the [Kernel] and using
[GNU] UserSpace utilities
+Because the [Kernel] and UserSpace utilities are individually exchangable
, [RMS
] want [Linux] distributions referred to
as [GNU]/[Linux], reasoning that they use mostly [GNU] UserSpace utilities. While they use
the [Linux]
[Kernel], a similar OperatingSystem could just as well use a different one
and still be composed mostly of
[GNU] UserSpace utilities, such as [GNU]/[Hurd]. However, strangely, while the glibc, sysvinit, and a number of other crucial system components were made by the [GNU] project, the questio n of whether the majority of UserSpace is under a [GNU] license ([GPL]/[LGPL]) or [some other license | Category:License] doesn't appear to enter into this dicussion.
+
+See also:
+* [The GNU Project homepage | http://www.gnu.org/]
+* FreeSoftwareFoundation
-----
-
-[RMS] wants you to refer to a [Linux] distribution as [GNU]/[Linux].
-
-His logic is that "[Linux]" is a [Kernel], and it uses mostly [GNU] UserSpace utilities. Thus the OperatingSystem as a whole is "GNU/Linux".
-
-If the majority of UserSpace is under a [GNU License] or [BSD License] or other [Licences], doesn't appear to enter into this dicussion for some reason.
+CategoryPolitics
