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Call it GNU or call it Linux. GNU/Linux is just stupid

• ktRolster 10y ago
  To solve that problem, I always call it GLinux but the 'G' is silent.
  • cyphar 10y ago
    The G in GNU isn't silent. :P
    • ktRolster 10y ago
      The G in glinux is!
• belorn 10y ago
  Call it by the distribution name. Calling debian and android by the same name is silly if the only common software is the kernel and a bunch of universal tools and libraries.
  • yoplait_ 10y ago
    I don't know about Android but it's not silly at all to call Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu by a common name. I do it all the time.
    • belorn 10y ago
      Ubuntu is a Debian-based operative system. Using the name "Debian" for both makes perfect good sense. Fedora, i.e. Red Hat, is very distinct from Debian. A Debian software package is not guaranteed to work on Fedora, nor is a Red Hat package guaranteed to work in Debian. Both try to be semi-compatible with each other, but that does not make them identical. A common name used in the past is "Unix" or "Unix compatible", but then what is not Unix compatible today? We could be talking about Linux compatible, but then, the vast majority of programs will work on BSD kernel as well as Linux kernels, while having stronger compatibility demands on distribution-specific technology. Maybe "systemd" or "systemd compatible" should be the new OS name? If you tell me the distribution of your OS, it will tell me enough information to make or identify compatible software. What property is more important than that in a name?
      • yoplait_ 10y ago
        ok I'll remember it for the next time I chat with you. But come on dude, most people don't care about the distribution I use, knowing that I use Linux (the OS, not the kernel) and not Windows or OSX is what they want to know. All the rest is literature. Really.
  • cyphar 10y ago
    Okay. Debian GNU/Linux. Fedora GNU/Linux. openSUSE GNU/Linux.