On Wed,22.Jul.09, 13:25:00, 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 - The delimiter (<dash><dash><space>) is ok, but then you have an empty line and some more text. At least mutt will show that in the normal color (as in "not a signature"). Maybe you should try to keep your signature shorter? If you worry about nettiquete please also wrap your lines to *less* than 80 characters. 72 is a good number, allowing also for several levels of quoting. > and was told that my signature "Linux Debian" should read "Debian > GNU/Linux" because: "considering that the majority of it is provided > by GNU." GNU stands for "GNU's not UNIX" and was always meant to be a free operating system, while Linux is a kernel. You could think of it like: the GNU operating system with the Linux kernel, but whatever you name it, neither can work without the other, so yes, the correct name would be some combination of GNU+Linux. OTOH, a modern *desktop* operating system without X and a DE/WM is not very common, so maybe the correct designation should be (in my case) "GNU/Linux Xorg/Xfce"? > 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? Debian is working on GNU/Hurd (GNU+Hurd kernel) and GNU/kFreeBSD (GNU+FreeBSD kernel). I haven't heard of any plans to make a FreeBSD/Linux or similar combination as it seems the GNU tools are easier to port to a different kernel then the other "tools". Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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