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No, it's not. It is Canonical's packaging of various components, some of which are GNU, some of which are from a disparate group of people, and those components
by Sanddancer 11y ago
No, it's not. It is Canonical's packaging of various components, some of which are GNU, some of which are from a disparate group of people, and those components may be used much much more than the gnu components. Given the intended use cases, such as server development, it would be a lot more accurate, but no less ridiculous, to call it Python/ImageMagick/GNU/Canonical/Nginx/kWindows. Canonical and Microsoft did the heavy lifting, the GNU project is just responsible for the bitching and moaning afterward.
- drdaeman 11y ago> GNU project is just responsible for the bitching and moaning It really sounds like you want to say GNU Project hadn't wrote the whole OS core (sans kernel), but Microsoft and Canonical did. What they're shipping is actually Ubuntu OS (which is a GNU derivative, with GNU being actually the essential core part here - the OS, with the other essential part being apt/dpkg system) for Windows kernel, not nginx or ImageMagick or anything. Even though those can be installed (and when those are what it's about, then we call it "python stack" or "LAMP" or whatever). So the names "Ubuntu" (I'm not sure why author's against this one, it's Ubuntu after all; we call "Debian GNU/Linux" just "Debian" as well) and "GNU" (which Ubuntu essentially is distribution of) are perfectly applicable.
- mikegerwitz 11y agoGNU is a fully free/libre replacement for the Unix operating system, not just a collection of GNU programs: https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html https://gnu.org/gnu/gnu.html