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From: | Adam Pribyl |
Subject: | Re: Presence of GuixSD as "a Linux" |
Date: | Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:21:33 +0200 (CEST) |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote:
Some pages and documentation of some projects insist on using terminology such as "a Linux", "Linux distributions", "Linux flavours" etc. when referring to GNU/Linux systems. Would the publicity benefits of appearing on such pages outweigh the harm done by GuixSD appearing as "a Linux"?
IMHO GuixSD is more a platform to build OS. Now it is build with Linux, but I noticed Hurd attempts too or it may "parasite" on another OS. I do not feel it as a GNU/Linux distribution.
Such a case we had recently: Guitarix web page. Despite having "GNU/Linux" in the project name, they were unwilling to change mentions of "a Linux" and "Linux flavours" on their page to GNU/Linux, without really giving a reason... Anyone interested might want to check their mailing list archives; I don't know if perhaps my communication skills were too bad.
Do not bother people with that - let them use what they want. To understand this, people have to have some level of insight and will. They may grow to that or not.
Taylan
Adam Pribyl
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