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A Red Hat system was running more code for GNOME/KDE than either coreutils or Linux. Should we call it GNOME/GNU/Linux? Probably, because GNOME was designed fro
by kunai 13y ago
A Red Hat system was running more code for GNOME/KDE than either coreutils or Linux. Should we call it GNOME/GNU/Linux? Probably, because GNOME was designed from the beginning to be a usable desktop for users. There is a GNU, and it is running on their system, but it is just part of the system they use.
Also, LOC is a really poor metric for comparing the importance of a piece of software for a system. Many applications have far more LOC than the entire OS itself, and you wouldn't call that app more essential than the OS.
- dllthomas 13y agoLOC is a poor metric, but by any metric GNU contribution was substantial. GNOME, incidentally, is GNU[1]. Coreutils is not the sole contribution of the GNU project to a (typical desktop or server) Linux system. [1]: Certainly currently - I am less confident it started that way, but the G seems to stand for GNU so that's some evidence that it did.
- wildgift 13y agoGNOME = GNU Object Model Environment Also, Linux isn't GNU, but it is GPL. People get annoyed at the RMS self-promotion, or GNU promotion, but that stuff is important.
- dllthomas 13y agoAll true. It'd still be weird for RMS to try and claim the kernel is GNU, but I don't believe he ever did.