[rms at gnu.org: Speeches in Israel?]

[Baruch Even]

Debian is already called Debian GNU/Linux as well as Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and
Debian GNU/Hurd. Debian is the name of the project, the distribution is
always GNU based with a different kernel.

Baruch

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net> wrote:

> 2011/1/17 Mordecha Behar <mordecha.behar at mail.huji.ac.il>:
> > Remember, he is a GNU founder, not a Linux founder. There is a
> difference.
>
> Actually RMS doesn't like the name Linux, and he wants the operating
> system to be called "GNU/Linux" or "GNU+Linux" and not Linux.  I
> attended an open source conference in 2002 when he attended, and he
> spoke about it.  Personally I think it's a lost battle, and Linux is a
> good name for the operating system.  Especially when there are
> operating systems such as Red Hat Linux, Debian and Ubuntu, adding the
> name "GNU/Linux" to them would be too long and confusing.
>
> P.S. I searched "linux" in Google and found out that the title on
> www.debian.org is "Debian GNU/Linux".  RMS' battle for GNU/Linux is
> not completely in vain.
>
> Uri Even-Chen
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