Re: [Hampshire] Something to Download and Enjoy

> And Apache converts Linux, GNU et al to a Web server.

You're mixing apples and oranges there...

The OS is defined according to the POSIX spec. To create that OS, you need
both the kernel (Linux) and the userland (GNU, typically).

Apache et al are applications that run on top of the OS. They are not part
of it.

> It still doesn't
> make GNU more important that Linux and its modules.

GNU is not more important that Linux - but Linux is not an OS, and nor is
GNU. Put the two together, and you've got an operating system. It is the
fusion of the two parts - hence GNU/Linux.

> Look at Hurd, no one uses that

I don't see the relevance of that.

> and without a good OS, GNU wouldn't be known.

GNU *is part of* the OS. The OS is not just the kernel.

> It is offensive
> and wrong to use the term in a FLOSS community.

Absolutely not. It is the correct term, since it describes the OS created
by joining the GNU userland to the Linux kernel.

Vic.