Re: Gentoo GNU/Hurd

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:38:02PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:23:39AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > GNU/Hurd was the term used for referring to GNU to avoid confusion with
> > its variant GNU/Linux, since they say "Gentoo Linux" in first place i
> > don't see what they mean to distinguish GNU from..
> > 
> 
> I decided that "Gentoo Hurd" isn't as aesthetically pleasing as "Gentoo 
> GNU/Hurd" is. <G>

well, "Gentoo GNU" might or might not be aesthetically pleasing, but it
makes more sense to avoid redundancy when there is not a "Gentoo GNU/Linux"
to contrast with.

see http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.en.html#q1-2

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