Re: Debian too difficult, Red Hat?
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
> john jabbed,
>
> > > ...on the other hand, every time I have "GNU/ Linux" shoved in my face, I
> > > give FreeBSD another thought. Anyone know how to remove it? I can't
> > > find where it's coming from
>
> > /etc/motd, of course. You can put what ever you want there.
>
> that was the first place i looked, but it's not where the GNU comes from :)
> but bob pointed to /etc/issue, where it did.
>
> > What's so offensive about "GNU/Linux"?
>
> The politics of it :) The general idea behind it is something like "The
> contributions of GNU are almost/as/more important than linux, which is
> just the kernel, and GNU should get credit; there would be no system
> without gnu, etc."
>
> frankly, I prefer the BSD utilities, and dislike nearly everything all
> of the gnu changes: excessively long option names, info/hostility to
> man, etc. And i generally prefer the way the bsd versions operate on
> those where i've noticed a difference.
>
> But it comes down to "GNU/Linux" being a political statement, and one
> that I disagree with.
I don't like GNU either. They're unnecessary complex most of the
times, and they're too worried about imposing their own standards to
others. Scheme->Guile, Lisp ->elisp , Linux-> Hurd. And their
copyright notice is awful! But... I use emacs, and other nice GNUish
software everyday :)).
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