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Re: Linux is not for consumers!



On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 10:43:28AM +0000, Richard Kimber wrote:
> You must be aware, surely, that there are two usages of 'Linux'.  One is
> the one you have given, which is the original meaning.  But there is also
> the general evolved man-or-woman-in-the-street usage that applies to the
> distribution as a whole.  Of the two magazines in my local newsagent's
> shop that have 'Linux' in the title, neither deals exclusively with the
> kernel, and kernel-specific content is probably only a smallish proportion
> of the total.  Does 'Debian Linux' only refer to the Debian version of the
> kernel?

The proper name for the distribution we release is not "Debian Linux",
but "Debian GNU/Linux". This is all over our web site so it's not as if
people can easily be confused.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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