Re: Hurd FS hierarchy (was Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH troubles)

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:41:42PM -0400, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 09:24:57AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> writes:
> > 
> > > Could you point me to an article or interview in which RMS says "the
> > > GNU/Hurd system" instead of "the GNU system"?
> > 
> > He has himself said that both are perfectly appropriate.  Marcus can
> > probably find the references, though I'd rather you didn't try and
> > distract him too.
> 
> I can only say that RMS has asked me on several occasions to use
> GNU/Hurd rather than GNU.  There was email on one of the Hurd lists
> when the naming issues where discussed, where RMS said himself that
> and when GNU/Hurd should be used.  Jeroen can look this up in the email
> archive himself.

This reminds me of a nice anectode I heard of.

The presentation board of GUADEC 2001 stated:

"The GNOME project is building a complete, user-friendly, desktop for UNIX
and Linux that is freely available for everyone"

using some tags, RMS fixed it like this:

"GNOME is the GNU desktop project, building a complete, free user-friendly
desktop for GNU and GNU/Linux (and UNIX), so that all computer users have
freedom"

I don't think that "GNU and GNU/Linux" was any ambigous in that sentence.

cheers,

-- 
Robert Millan

"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"

              Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992


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