Philip Tellis philip.tellis@gmx.net writes:
GNU is enough. Adding linux to the end of it only serves to give credit to Linus Torvalds for doing no more than posting his code to usenet. However, if you are going to add Linux to the end of the GNU operating system, then you must add all the others as well. Give credit where it is due.
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It's not crediting the contribution of the FSF. The FSF set out to write an operating system called GNU. They did that, and that's why we call the operating system GNU. Why add anything to it?
Nope., they did not yet. The `GNU` system was engineered to have the `Hurd` as the kernel., and Linux is just a temporary fit. In fact glibc was originally written to support the Hurd but was re-engineered for the sake of the Linux kernel. I think the FSF funded it., I'm not sure though.
One cannot call the `Debian GNU/Hurd` distribution as _the_ GNU system. Its debian's variant of the GNU system. All GNU/Linux distributions are simply variants of a `GNU/Linux` OS which is not _the_ GNU system. The GNU system is still under development. It'll have the Hurd as its kernel. It may not have the legendary `rc` scripts., talk is on to have a GUILE extensible startup program to start the system.
You'll find better info at gnu-system-discuss@gnu.org.