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Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?
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Giuseppe Scrivano |
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Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System? |
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Sun, 23 Nov 2014 20:46:54 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>> But at the same time I hesitate to officially discard the GNU Hurd by
>> saying that Linux is the kernel of the GNU system.
>
> Guix does not discard the GNU Hurd (there has been work to support it),
> but considers GNU Linux-libre the most important target of these
> two---let's not lie to ourselves.
>
> Furthermore, Linux-libre is also a GNU package.
>
>> 2. I don't want to downplay the existing free GNU/Linux distros than
>> we now give them. They are important.
>
> I understand the concern.
>
> Yet, I don't think we're downplaying them. First, for 30 years, GNU has
> claimed to be working on delivering an operating system, so it should
> come as no surprise when the last building block is added to make it a
> reality. Second, Guix takes a different approach, and arguably occupies
> a different place from Trisquel, gNewSense, etc.
linux-libre is without any doubt a very interesting project and a
fundamental piece of all of the free distros already mentioned in this
thread but will such a system, which uses Linux as its kernel, be called
GNU or GNU/Linux?
Regards,
Giuseppe
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- Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro, 2014/11/24
- Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Felipe López, 2014/11/24
- Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Felipe López, 2014/11/24
- Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Richard Stallman, 2014/11/24
- Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro, 2014/11/24
- Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Tobias Platen, 2014/11/26
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- Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?,
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- Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro, 2014/11/24
- Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro, 2014/11/22
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- Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro, 2014/11/21
Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro, 2014/11/21
Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?, Ludovic Courtès, 2014/11/21