Re: uname -s and naming confusion

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Tom Hart <hartte13@BrandonU.CA> writes:

> Doesn't a lot of this confusion come from:
> 
> 1. No enforced standardization of terminology.
> 
> The GNU project uses the term "operating system" to refer to the
> complete *usable* system, ie. GNU, GNU/Hurd, GNU/Linux, and "kernel"
> to refer to the kernel, ie. Linux, Hurd/Mach, Hurd/L4, etc., whereas
> the BSD people say "operating system == kernel".

Yes.  So what I'm saying is "Let's not add to the confusion.  Let's at
least try and keep all the variants of the GNU system compatible in
their use of terminology."