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Most don't understand the history of the GNU Operating System: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html GNU conta
by mikegerwitz 10y ago
Most don't understand the history of the GNU Operating System:
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html
GNU contains a lot of non-GNU-written software because, to create a fully free OS, the only portions that needed to be written were the portions that did not have free replacements.
- xj9 10y agomake a distro, call it gnu/linux, problem solved.
- teddyh 10y agoWhy not make a GNU distribution of Linux (sic) and call that GNU/Linux? https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#gnudist https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#gnudist All the “Linux” distributions are actually versions of the GNU system with Linux as the kernel. The purpose of the term “GNU/Linux” is to communicate this point. To develop one new distribution and call that alone “GNU/Linux” would obscure the point we want to make. As for developing a distribution of GNU/Linux, we already did this once, when we funded the early development of Debian GNU/Linux. To do it again now does not seem useful; it would be a lot of work, and unless the new distribution had substantial practical advantages over other distributions, it would serve no purpose. Instead we help the developers of 100% free GNU/Linux distributions, such as gNewSense and Ututo.