Re: Developers who write Debian GNU/Linux when they mean Debian.
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Brian May wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 09:05:57AM -0600, Colin Watson wrote:
> > I usually prefer just "... for the Debian system". "Debian/GNU" reads
> > awkwardly to me.
Being a little pedantic. "for _a_ Debian system"
> After all, as far as I am concerned Debian is the name of the
> operating system, it just happens to use a lot of code from the
> GNU project. Especially in the case of the version of Debian that
> uses The Hurd.
I would describe Debian as a series of GNU operating systems. At the
moment GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd. There may be others in the dim distant
future.
Being really pedantic "a Debian GNU system", but I don't like this as the
FSF may in the afore mentioned dim distant future start working on an
operating system that is not related to *nix and I would like to think
that Debian would be involved. So I would want to stick with "a Debian
system".
Phil.
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