Re: Is this statement correct?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 02/17/2011 07:54 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On 17:37 Thu 17 Feb, Lisi (lisi.reisz@gmail.com) wrote:
> > Is this statement correct?  It comes in the textbook for a course I am doing.
> > <quote>
> > Grub (Grand Unified Bootloader) is the boot program of the GNU project.
> > </quote>
> >
> > If so, where does LILO fit in?
>
> The longer, more formal name of Debian is "Debian GNU/Linux".  It is called that
> because the core of the system is the fusion of the Linux kernel (which is not
> part of the GNU project) with the basic GNU tools (such as the programs found
> in the "coreutils" package, for example).  The Debian project wished to acknowledge
> the major contribution that the GNU project made to the distribution in the
> early days (and still continues to do so).

Then it should be named:
   Debian GNU/X/GNOME/KDE/Lots-of-other-stuff Linux.

I remember when RMS got all pissy about Hurd getting overshadowed by 
a little punk from Finland and fearing that people would forget 
about his greatness.

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