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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work)
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work) |
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Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:08:02 -0400 |
This way everything is easy:
- Count all software packages on CD.
It would be necessary to add up their sizes, not just count the number
of packages. It would be a substantial job. And you'd have to decide
which packages are important enough to be worth counting. Consider Debian;
it has over 10,000 packages, I believe, but many are only rarely used.
Would you like to do this experiment?
- Get the percentage of GNU software.
- If GNU software constitutes over 50% of the OS, then it has all rights
to be mentioned in the name of the OS.
In 1995, the last time someone did this that I know of,
28% of the system was GNU software. Linux was 3%. GNU software
was not 50% of the system, but it was much bigger than Linux.
That, I think, is enough reason to argue that calling the system
"Linux" can't be right.
Much more free software has been developed since then, so I expect
that both numbers would be smaller if you counted today.
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), (continued)
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Rudy Gevaert, 2004/06/16
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Yaroslav Klyukin, 2004/06/16
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Sylvain Beucler, 2004/06/16
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Yaroslav Klyukin, 2004/06/16
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Sylvain Beucler, 2004/06/16
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Yaroslav Klyukin, 2004/06/16
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Richard Stallman, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Richard Stallman, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Richard Stallman, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Sylvain Beucler, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work),
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Yaroslav Klyukin, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Richard Stallman, 2004/06/18
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Rudy Gevaert, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Yaroslav Klyukin, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Rudy Gevaert, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Yaroslav Klyukin, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Sylvain Beucler, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Yaroslav Klyukin, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Sylvain Beucler, 2004/06/17
- Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Help wanted (sysadmin work), Yaroslav Klyukin, 2004/06/17