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Re: What to call Guix
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Olaf Buddenhagen |
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Re: What to call Guix |
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Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:19:38 +0100 |
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Hi,
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 03:21:25PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> We cannot give it a name like that. To call a distro "the GNU system
> distribution" would come across as a rejection of gNewSense, Trisquel,
> etc. Those distros are important contributions to our community, and
> promoting them is an important goal for the GNU Project.
>
> Therefore, my decision is that the GNU Project will not name a distro
> by a name that appears to say it is above all other distros in
> importance to us.
Well, I'd propose a slightly more differentiated view: I share your
opinion that the name shouldn't imply it's the one and only true GNU
distribution (and thus "GNU system distribution" without any further
qualifier would be problematic); however, it should be OK (and in fact
desirable) to imply a *somewhat* distinguised position within the GNU
project.
The other free distros are about making the best of some existing
popular third-party GNU-based system distributions; but I'm sure their
developers have no illusions of these being true substitutes for a
system distribution developed from the ground up out of the middle of
the GNU project, in the spirit of what GNU was supposed to be from the
get-go. (C and Lisp as system languages, hint hint ;-) )
-antrik-
- Re: What to call Guix, (continued)
- Re: What to call Guix, Svetlana Tkachenko, 2015/01/16
- Re: What to call Guix, Richard Stallman, 2015/01/16
- Re: What to call Guix, davi, 2015/01/17
- Re: What to call Guix, 白い熊, 2015/01/17
- Re: What to call Guix, 白い熊, 2015/01/17
- Re: What to call Guix, Jude Rubini, 2015/01/17
- Re: What to call Guix,
Olaf Buddenhagen <=
- Re: What to call Guix, Richard Stallman, 2015/01/16
- Re: What to call Guix, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro, 2015/01/16
- Re: What to call Guix, Svetlana Tkachenko, 2015/01/17
- Re: What to call Guix, Olaf Buddenhagen, 2015/01/23
- Re: What to call Guix, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro, 2015/01/16
- Re: What to call Guix, Ricardo Wurmus, 2015/01/19
- Re: What to call Guix, hellekin, 2015/01/19
- Re: What to call Guix, Richard Stallman, 2015/01/19
- Re: What to call Guix, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/01/19
- Re: What to call Guix, Omar Radwan, 2015/01/19