Re: [OT] GNU - Linux and Debian.......

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Charlie wrote:
> Just a general off topic query.
>
> I was recently informed that my signature had a problem rendering correctly on 
> someone's mailer - deliniter incorrect - and was told that my signature "Linux 
> Debian" should read "Debian GNU/Linux" because: "considering that the majority 
> of it is provided by GNU."
>
> I have added GNU - but it may be silly? My own prejudice was that Linux was 
> first so should be first, that without it there would be no Debian? Or as I 
> asked my correspondent, who never replied, would there have been an OpenBSD 
> Debian or something like that? Then should GNU go before Debian or after? Or 
> not be there at all? Even if most comes from GNU Debian is the one that 
> creates it so?
>
> I'm just interested and imagine there will not be a definitive answer to this 
> at all.
>
> Be well,
> Charlie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy

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