Re: [Press] Distributing the Gnu Hurd
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:28:17AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 02:44:05PM +0000, Gilbert Fernandes wrote:
> >
> > Hello all.
> >
> > Here below is the email I sent to Philip, about distributing
> > a "not tooo big" .iso of the Gnu HURD onto our magazine
> > CD-Rom:
>
> Very nice! :)
>
> Please keep in mind that the whole system should be referred
> to as either "GNU", "GNU/Hurd" or "Debian GNU/Hurd", where
> "the GNU Hurd" is not the same as "GNU/Hurd".
Mmm. Someone once explained to me that "GNU/Hurd" (and "GNU/Linux",
too) is like "TCP/IP", in which the slash is pronounced as "over"
(like `(2^.5)/2' is pronounced `root-two over two').
Contrarily, "GNU Hurd" uses "GNU" as an adjective describing "Hurd"....
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