Timeline for Attempts to unify Linux and other free Unix?
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| Apr 20, 2012 at 4:40 | comment | added | J. M. Becker | Personally I always use 'GNU/Linux', whenever I remember and especially in writing. For the reasons already mentioned, most relevant Android. But 2-4 packages??? You must be kidding, I've got more if you ONLY count releases from the GNU org. When you throw in GNU GPL licensed, way more then half. | |
| May 21, 2011 at 8:04 | history | edited | tshepang | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 9 characters in body |
| Feb 3, 2011 at 10:44 | comment | added | xenoterracide | @jae yes I would say I did mean that... sorry I wasn't a moderator then... and so I doubt it was as ambiguous when I said it. I've modified it. | |
| Feb 2, 2011 at 14:01 | comment | added | Jürgen A. Erhard | @xenoterracide: you mean "vote" down, right? Or what is "mod down" supposed to mean? | |
| Jan 6, 2011 at 0:22 | comment | added | André Paramés | @xenoterracide: I think their position is that the GNU packages (and let's not forget the GNU GPL license, under which the kernel is developed, and that for good or bad has shaped the Linux project) are the indispensable core to build and boot any distributions, while the rest sits on top but it's not really part of the OS. Having said that, I never actually call it GNU/Linux unless I'm referring also to "other" Linuxes (android, webos, etc). | |
| Jan 5, 2011 at 1:33 | comment | added | xenoterracide | @andre I'm sure not much wasn't compiled by gcc, and I do believe we use glibc. but I don't think 2-4 of the 1000 packages I have installed require me to say GNU/Linux. | |
| Jan 4, 2011 at 13:51 | comment | added | André Paramés | How much of your system wasn't compiled by GCC? :) But I think the distinction is mostly valid when you're talking about the libc. Android, for example, uses a different implementation, hence it isn't GNU/Linux. | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 16:14 | comment | added | xenoterracide | I'm tempted to vote down over the (well it practically is), "It's GNU/Linux, not just Linux", statement. I use KDE, X.org, and Zsh which are not made by GNU. sure I have to have Bash installed (cause my distro requires it) but it's not my interactive shell. If I had an alternative to GNU Coreutils I might install those too. Really how much of my system is GNU? | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 15:54 | comment | added | phunehehe | still, you are supposed to "build" the software specifically for each distro (unless they use the same kind of package). apps are not much of a problem because, say, on Slackware I can install an app from Ubuntu, right? | |
| Sep 5, 2010 at 15:43 | history | answered | uray | CC BY-SA 2.5 |