Re: public opinion about Debian GNU (Hurd)

[Thomas Poindessous <poinde_t@epita.fr>]

zeratul2@wanadoo.es (Robert Millan) writes:

> Hello,
> 
> here's an example of what outside people thinks about GNU(Hurd).
> 
> http://www.mailgate.org/linux/linux.debian.ports.hurd/
> 
> IMHO, the name "linux.debian.ports.hurd" explains that most people
> outside the Debian GNU(Hurd) community are missinformed about
> what the Hurd is.

I think it's just because of the name of this mailing list, debian-hurd
When you create newsgroups for debian mailing lists, you create them under
linux.debian section, so comp.os.linux.debian.hurd.

And on the debian website, the web pages for debian-hurd are
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd

But you are right, most of computer users doesn't think Hurd is a different
OS.

> I've found this acronym in other places like newsgroups and so
> (comp.os.linux.debian.hurd) and i feel that we should do something
> to inform other computer users (and specially GNU/Linux users)
> and tell them that this is a different and complete operating system.
> 
> regards,

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