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From: | Luis Felipe López Acevedo |
Subject: | bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux |
Date: | Sun, 25 Dec 2016 11:45:50 -0500 |
User-agent: | Roundcube Webmail/1.0.6 |
I agree with Tylan.Instead of the current patch, however, I'd change the whole paragraph to something like this (a combination with the current first paragraph on Wikipedia):
GuixSD (Guix System Distribution) is a distribution of the [GNU operating system][link] centered on the GNU Guix package manager. It uses the [Linux-libre kernel][link] by default, with the [GNU Hurd][link] being supported as of version 0.12.0. As a GNU distribution, it is committed to respecting and enhancing the [freedom][link] of its users, and adheres to the [GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines][link].
To David, the Guix developers had the intention to call the system just GNU, and distribute it as GNU (Guix is a GNU project after all), but RMS didn't agree, so it was decided to use the GuixSD name and call it "A distribution of GNU", and not "THE distribution of GNU." [1]
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2014-11/msg00002.html
-- Luis Felipe López Acevedo https://sirgazil.bitbucket.io/
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