Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?

[Felipe López]

On 22/11/14 09:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi, Brandon,
> 
> Brandon Invergo <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
>> I would argue that rather than talking about producing The Official GNU
>> System, we should be talking about producing a *reference* distribution
>> of the GNU system.  The Guix guys are effectively doing that in my
>> opinion and I think it's great.  Now, instead of us saying "these are
>> the strictly necessary components", we're saying "here is, to us, an
>> excellent way to put together the GNU system" with an extra advantage of
>> being able to highlight some GNU Project packages that don't normally
>> get included in the other distros (again like lsh vs openssh).
> 
> I agree that it’s a nice constructive way to view things.
> 
> Yet, the question of how to name things is interesting.  While (say) the
> “Debian operating system” (sic, as per www.debian.org) can indeed be
> downloaded and installed, the “GNU operating system” seemingly cannot,
> to the www.gnu.org visitor¹.  This is arguably a hindrance for GNU as a
> project.
> 
> My 2¢,
> Ludo’.
> 
> ¹ On that topic, see the analysis Mike Gran made a while back:
>   <http://lcinexile.blogspot.fr/2013/01/new-gnu-recruits.html>.
> 

Mike's analysis illustrates well some of the important problems I see in
the GNU Project. And they can be fixed and there is people willing to
fix them.

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