From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mike Gerwitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs on Ubuntu advice Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:36:45 -0400 Message-ID: <87fuaj570y.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1508177460 14415 195.159.176.226 (16 Oct 2017 18:11:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:11:00 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) Cc: Emacs developers , Fabrice Popineau , "rms@gnu.org" , Yuri Khan To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 16 20:10:56 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e49qn-0002ti-OB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:10:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34516 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e49qv-0005sm-3q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:11:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56482) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e49KA-000335-ML for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:37:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e49K9-0002ix-Hz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58844) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e49K9-0002is-Dj; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55380 helo=mikegerwitz-pc.gerwitz.local) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e49K8-0006iH-4Z; Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:37:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2017 23:28:20 -0700") OpenPGP: id=22175B02E626BC98D7C0C2E5F22BB8158EE30EAB X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219586 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 23:28:20 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Yes, that is a more technically-accurate name. Mike Gerwitz goes into this > issue at more length here: > > Gerwitz M. GNU/kWindows. 2016-04-06. https://mikegerwitz.com/2016/04/GNU-= kWindows > > where he calls it "GNU/kWindows", a name that is shorter and easier to > remember. I suppose another possibility might be "GNU/WSL", though this > relies on people knowing what "WSL" stands for. All these names are more > accurate than "Windows Subsystem for GNU/Linux" would be. rms came up with the name; I wrote that article with his input. He chose the name for clarity's sake; I can't say whether something else may or may not be more appropriate. If another term does happen to be more appropriate (and rms agrees), I'll change it in the article. =2D-=20 Mike Gerwitz Free Software Hacker+Activist | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer GPG: D6E9 B930 028A 6C38 F43B 2388 FEF6 3574 5E6F 6D05 https://mikegerwitz.com --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJZ5O4uAAoJEIyRe39dxRuizvsQAKb/f8LH/m0Xf/N3ssO5/qEp ZQDWosTEuob8G5PE/JSt4dWU8kYFUTsLme/0Fa3L5IMs2w2WuYZSyGJpHn4obIK5 uxmUKwEB5/OWR71j8iCvhEb44xoQ1vkEHCIk7djtG97QJm3Dx5/5p8xnT1QG8Pke LO7WwVhEUQah8bONRB7vMgCSsrrk5h0WjmtCT/XP9LzLhBMpfLE9MyZo+mRjrISZ 3mfJtdwMWHa4VPb69WPk8MrS4So+TCCECLy+ovT9CjtN7OL4zIBu/gBnN7AD2+ZS dzvAavVET75nFVmS0YfItIOWqrHU0WXxF+spYXzEWLYr9fIyRcn4xJekGfTbAEOI a5bFktRxOCQ+kH182FgbnWdR4V5HsgWQPo1ywbejvaERLNNBu6+/umODwuLgE6ro 7fOzdfsy5dGcpARP0QF1wS/VxrLRpnZr47wWp/DkIFpIWD7Xiw2feabZHCb98ELG Ln7IMUp6dwq+CQlocSK3/Tff2IrriT2hX0cDTOgDMV6VP3rzq5PcrnA+039GXXIv lQvRnUgPCKeDUdkYaQ7YJAyfVHa34A+/6TgP0N7wps4rTsZLGeAGsS8kERRp5xrT Xh4KLWEm2lL0XXnJbthuVvlDlE+M1BYHL/TxdhlPCoGWoDYXxuOTJBmUlIWYVRqN a3qFdW7t8pFlBgsxa4/e =iuHj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--