Cc'age to the BTS dropped, to debian-hurd added.
On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 06:46:48AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> If you refer to GNU/Linux, then let me explain that
> the GNU system is based on the Hurd, while
> GNU/Linux is based on Linux.
I'm sorry, but you simply do not get to have it both ways. Either Linux
systems are an implementation of the GNU system that happens to have a
Linux kernel, or "GNU/Linux" is an entirely unjust publicity stunt to
promote a completely separate system.
In, short, stop trying to promote the Hurd as "*the* GNU system",
either deliberately or by habit. Treating Linux as the misbegotten
half-brother of the Hurd isn't remotely fair on all the work -- all
the GPLed free software -- that's been done or being done on the
only GNU variant that's actually ready for prime time -- least of
all when huge amounts of that work are directly helping the GNU/Hurd
project. See also the bolded nonsense in the third last paragraph of
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.
> Please have a look at the patch
I'll have a look at it when I'm next working on debootstrap which won't
be for a while yet.
Cheers,
aj
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