Messages in this thread | | | From | (Larry McVoy) | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux | Date | Sat, 02 Jan 1999 10:46:04 -0800 |
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: "Albert D. Cahalan" : : +----- : | to be mentioned anymore. When I see i386-redhat-linux on all the : | FSF stuff I compile, I will reconsider that decision. Until then, : | I hope others will join me in ignoring you as punishment. : +--->8
"Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net>: : "i386-redhat-linux", eh? On S.u.S.E.? Debian? Stampede? Pacific Hi-Tech? : None of which are sufficiently different to require a different canonical : triplet. So all of them would end up being identified as "redhat"... and I : fail to see how identifying other Linux distributions as Red Hat (or Red Hat : wannabees) differs from your complaint about "GNU/Linux".
His point, I think, was that i386-redhat-linux is quite a bit more accurate and useful than i386-gnu-linux. Ditto for i386-suse-linux and i386-debian-linux. For the other, smaller releases and/or for the systems where it couldn't be figured out which distribution it was, i386-gnu-linux or i386-unknown-linux, would be fine.
But to take {redhat,suse,slackware,debian} and call them all gnu is (a) incorrect, (b) somewhat annoying, and (c) loses important information.
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