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

[Dave Crossland]

Hi

Personal opinion only

On 20 November 2014 15:42, Felipe López <address@hidden> wrote:

I'd like to know what is
holding the GNU developers back from releasing the first version of the
GNU Operating System.

It was released in the early 90s, with the Linux kernel substituted for HURD.

 

why can't the resulting
distribution be called The GNU Operating System (or GNU, for short)?

Because this will incentivise people to say that that "Acme Linux", referring to GNU+Linux, "is not GNU, because GNU is only available from gnu.org" which would be misleading.

"Acme GNU" or "GNU Acme" or "Acme GNU+Linux" are all the GNU operating system.

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Cheers
Dave