On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:59:37PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Troy.A Johnson wrote: > > It is a public relations problem that would be lessened if you would call > Linux "GNU/Linux" instead of simply "Linux." Not really, to resolve the public relations problem we would have to call it Apache/SSH/(Sendmail|Postfix|DJB)/(MySQL|PostgreSQL)/(RedHat|SuSE|Debian|Slackware|Gentoo|Peanut|...)/BSD/GNU/Linux I'm sure I missed a few. > > The only reason Linux did anything useful was because of GNU software. > That might be different today, but not much different. Really? I run many Linux systems without a single piece of GNU software. It's certainly not a requirement, and never has been. Simply calling it GNU/Linux excludes the many other contributors who have been just as responsible for the popularity of Linux. All or none. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203