Well I for one am glad that's been clarified, Keith.
TYVM
:-)
Tony Wood
from Linux Netbook
Ubuntu 11.10
On 22/12/11 21:28, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:17:07 +0000, aeclist@??? said:
>
>> real
>> people using GNU/Linux operating systems.
> Nobody outside geekdom uses GNU/Linux: they use Linux. I've been using
> Linux since 1993, and working with it on a daily basis for more than ten
> years. The only people I have ever heard refer to the operating system as
> "GNU/Linux" are pedants. Nothing wrong with being a pedant, of course:
> I've revelled in the role for years. Part of being one is accepting that,
> by definition, you don't see things the way others do (or possibly you
> feel differently about them), or in other words you differ from the norm.
>
> The norm, in this case, is to refer to the entire collection of software,
> including the kernel (one component), the GNU bits (a minority of
> components) and all the non-GNU bits (the majority), as "Linux". Right or
> wrong, justified or not, that's reality.
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