Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution

[Barry deFreese]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden>
To: "Barry deFreese" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: RFC - GNU System Distribution


> I haven't recived this message yet, so I'm replying to it here.
>
>   > (I think he had released a version of GNU, where is that?)
>
> There is a snapshot located at www.update.uu.se/~ams/gnu.
>
>   > Maybe we should set out our goals for next version of GNU and
>   > start working on that?
>
> There are some goals set out in the TODO file in the GSC, if anything
> is missing, or should be changed, please tell.
>
>
> If users are confused by the name "GNU", then we should unconfuse
> them.  The GNU system has always been called GNU, changing it to
> something else would be like changing the name of our movment, Free
> Software, to something else.

What GNU system has always been called GNU?  You could barely have a 
"usable" "GNU System" without something like Debian GNU/Hurd.

And that brings up a point.  If I say GNU vs. GNU/Hurd vs. GNU/Linux what is 
the differentiation?  Hell, if I just said GNU/Linux one could still ask "Is 
that Debian, Fedora, Red Hat, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Ututo, YellowDog, ad nauseum."

I'm looking at this strictly from a distribution point of view.  What if, in 
the name of "freedom", someone else wants to create a distribution of "The 
GNU System"?  Is it still just GNU?

Barry deFreese (aka bddebian)