Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Mar 1999 12:10:08 -0500 (EST) | From | Stephen Frost <> | Subject | Re: GNU/Linux stance by Richard Stallman |
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On Fri, 26 Mar 1999, Tom Holroyd wrote:
> >> Richard Stallman stood up and insisted that > >> Linux be called GNU Linux? > > You know, he was talking about the distributions and not the kernel > itself. People tend to refer to RedHat's or other's distributions as > "Linux"* when in fact "Linux"* refers only to the kernel. Stallman only > wants the growing number of RedHat users and Debian users and SuSE users > etc. to realize the fact that there is a lot more to a distribution than > just the kernel, and that large, important parts of most distributions is > GNU. So calling a Slackware CD "Linux" is technically incorrect (not that > that will stop anybody from doing it). > > [By the way, feel free to delete everything from your system that says > "GNU" when you do --version, if you don't like it.] > > * Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds
Just some stats on what one persons estimation was of the distribution of code in SuSe:
Code Contribution Distribution for S.u.S.E. 5.2
Package Name: suse5.2.codd Package Size: +514659722 bytes.
1.uncredited: 82733250 (16.075%) 2.free software foundation, inc: 51254116 (9.958%) 3.sun microsystems, inc: 38243234 (7.43%) 4.the regents of the university of california: 23581801 (4.582%) 5.x consortium: 18163125 (3.529%) 6.thomas g. lane: 8464917 (1.644%) 7.the university of washington: 7832780 (1.521%) 8.digital equipment corporation: 7206660 (1.4%) 9.snns group, ipvr, univ: 4366722 (0.848%) 10.aladdin enterprises: 4108079 (0.798%) 11.silicon graphics, inc: 3680070 (0.715%) 12.robert nation: 2465545 (0.479%) 13.maorong zou: 2438025 (0.473%)
Don't see much justification for calling it GNU/Linux.
Rest of the article at http://www.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/03/17/1034201 for those interested in what I'm taliing about.
Stephen
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