Stallman Meets KDE Team for Tea

fishermonger writes "Trying to imoprove relations, the french KDE team invited RMS to tea at Linux Solutions 2003. From the piece: 'He asked whether KDE people were saying "Gnu/Linux" or just "Linux", and Open Source or Free Software. I told him some of us are using KDE/Gnu/Linux which pleased him as an answer.' Many pearls in the article."

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do people really?

[drizuid]

i always just call it linux no matter what kind I'm using.. do people actually call it gnu/linux rather than linux? or even KDE/Gnu/Linux ??

do you just type it, or actually say "I use gnu linux"

Re:do people really?

[Avakado]

do you just type it, or actually say "I use gnu linux"

I say I use Debian. If I talk to someone who doesn't know what Debian is, I say I use a free (Norwegian has a separate word for free as in freedom) operating system including Linux, called Debian. Otherwise I say the name of the specific software I am talking about ("I'm having problems configuring XFree86", "KDE uses a long time to load", "I can't use BSD without the GNU toolchain", "Linux lacks support for my sound card") where other people would just say Linux.

Re:do people really?

[RevAaron]

I've known some folks who actually say, outloud, "I use Guhnoo Leenucks." All of them were pretty damned pretentious stick-up-butt-types. I've known some peop

How about we all just start calling "Linux" or "GNU/Linux" AWUOS- "a wannabe unix OS," which really captures the essence of linux, gnu, xfree, kde gnome, etc. That way, if my system, for some reason or another uses less than 23% GNU code I won't have to waste my time tallying it up and deciding whether or not I should say "GNU/Linux" or just "Linux."

Man, I used to really respect RMS. Maybe I was just young and dumb. Yes, GNU has contributed some awesome code to the world, but why the hell does he enjoy going out of his way to be an asshole? The XFree guys aren't telling everyone Linux should be called GNU/Xfreenux. It's sad- RMS must have some big feelings of inadequacy to press the issue so hard and so often. I honestly feel bad for the guy...

not always kde/gnu/linux

[larry bagina]

I (sometimes) use KDE under FreeBSD. And I know people that use it with Solaris, and OSX. KDE doesn't require GNU or Linux, it requires QT (which usually implies X11) X/QT/KDE is more accurate.