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Re: GNU/Linux Naming


From: Alexander Terekhov
Subject: Re: GNU/Linux Naming
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:27:38 +0100

Keith Thompson wrote:
[...]
> > One can call GNU/Linux for GNU if one wants to, much like one calls
> > OpenBSD for simply BSD.  Often when I am a bit lazy and someone asks
> > me what operating system I use I just say GNU, or a variant of GNU.
> 
> So if you want to be a bit lazy, it's acceptable to refer to GNU/Linux
> as "GNU", but not acceptable to refer to GNU/Linux as "Linux?"

:-)

"+1"

regards,
alexander.

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