Yes, X is bigger than the GNU tools. Yes, we on/. do recognize the term GNU. Yes, the Kernel is the central core of the operating envirnoment and is of the utmost importance to the system. However, I do think that GNU is not nearly as widely known a term as Linux. Sure you could, and some most likely have, use the Linux kernel with another set of tools analogus to those of the GNU system, but the reality is that people don't. I know several people who are in the IT profession and who use a GNU/Linux system on a daily basis who couldn't say what GNU stands for nor who RMS is.
While Linus' Linux is the core of one of the greatest operating envirnoments ever!... it is important to also give Stallman/FSG their due.
If you can do it, go ahead... however I think you will find it difficult as Linux is only a kernel, while GNU/Linux is an Operating System. Have fun writing a whole new Operating System so that you won't have to be annoyed any longer by RMS asking you to call the system GNU/Linux.
I'm sure that changing the word you use to describe GNU/Linux is much more difficult than writing a new OS.
While I personally agree with ID, I have no problem with teaching mostly darwinian evolution in schools if it is currently the most popular belief in the scientific community. However I would also like to remind some teachers that evolution is only a theory and should not be preached as an absolute truth that has been completly proven many times(as some of my teachers have done).
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Somehow, the hash of both seems to be waronterror.
Yes, X is bigger than the GNU tools. Yes, we on /. do recognize the term GNU. Yes, the Kernel is the central core of the operating envirnoment and is of the utmost importance to the system. However, I do think that GNU is not nearly as widely known a term as Linux. Sure you could, and some most likely have, use the Linux kernel with another set of tools analogus to those of the GNU system, but the reality is that people don't. I know several people who are in the IT profession and who use a GNU/Linux system on a daily basis who couldn't say what GNU stands for nor who RMS is.
While Linus' Linux is the core of one of the greatest operating envirnoments ever!... it is important to also give Stallman/FSG their due.
If you can do it, go ahead... however I think you will find it difficult as Linux is only a kernel, while GNU/Linux is an Operating System. Have fun writing a whole new Operating System so that you won't have to be annoyed any longer by RMS asking you to call the system GNU/Linux.
I'm sure that changing the word you use to describe GNU/Linux is much more difficult than writing a new OS.
While I personally agree with ID, I have no problem with teaching mostly darwinian evolution in schools if it is currently the most popular belief in the scientific community. However I would also like to remind some teachers that evolution is only a theory and should not be preached as an absolute truth that has been completly proven many times(as some of my teachers have done).