I can take my linux box and replace all the GNU tools. So if I do that am I no longer running Linux? I don't think so. Yes, linux uses these tools, but these tools depend on linux, linux does not depend on these tools. There is other software out there than GNU...
Yes, those are all very important, but they are not linux in my mind. The GNU tools are used on a wide variety of platforms. They are not what makes an OS, the kernel is. What's the difference between FreeBSD and Linux? The kernel ( yes, there are others, but the kernel is the biggest). They all use the same GNU tools. Why isn't stallman pushing for GNU/FreeBSD? Yes, GNU contributed a lot to the linux movement, and propelled it forward faster than it would have gone without it. But that doesn't mean linux wouldn't be here without them. Someone, somewhere would have written a c compiler, an editor, etc.
It seems like Stallman wants to take linux and make it his baby. Linus wrote the kernel, which is what Linux essentially is, he can do whatever he wants with it. Why should we all have to call it GNU Linux because stallman wants it that way? Maybe I'm off here, but unless Linus has been lying all this time, Linux came out of minix, not GNU. What ever happened to Hurd anyway...
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I can take my linux box and replace all the GNU tools. So if I do that am I no longer running Linux? I don't think so. Yes, linux uses these tools, but these tools depend on linux, linux does not depend on these tools. There is other software out there than GNU...
Yes, those are all very important, but they are not linux in my mind. The GNU tools are used on a wide variety of platforms. They are not what makes an OS, the kernel is. What's the difference between FreeBSD and Linux? The kernel ( yes, there are others, but the kernel is the biggest). They all use the same GNU tools. Why isn't stallman pushing for GNU/FreeBSD? Yes, GNU contributed a lot to the linux movement, and propelled it forward faster than it would have gone without it. But that doesn't mean linux wouldn't be here without them. Someone, somewhere would have written a c compiler, an editor, etc.
It seems like Stallman wants to take linux and make it his baby. Linus wrote the kernel, which is what Linux essentially is, he can do whatever he wants with it. Why should we all have to call it GNU Linux because stallman wants it that way? Maybe I'm off here, but unless Linus has been lying all this time, Linux came out of minix, not GNU. What ever happened to Hurd anyway...
I wonder if you'll be able to upgrade these things when mp4's are the biggest thing...