From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruno =?UTF-8?B?RsOpbGl4?= Rezende Ribeiro Subject: Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System? Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 02:04:33 -0200 Message-ID: <20141121020433.093d9ec9@freedom-laptop> References: <546E0BC8.8090200@openmailbox.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43616) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrfSp-00036p-Gk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:05:04 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrfSg-0000cP-G4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:04:55 -0500 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49934) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XrfSg-0000cL-CY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2014 23:04:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Omar Radwan Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Dave Crossland Em Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:12:44 -0800 Omar Radwan escreveu: > Guix is a distribution of GNU, so far the only distribution than is > officially under the umbrella of the GNU project. Guix is *not* a distribution of GNU; rather, it's the package manager of GNU. There is, however, a GNU project's distribution of the GNU system which the Guix team is working on. The Guix team folks are the first ones to work on such distribution because packaging and distributing are normally intrinsically related tasks. > Technically, its not GNU, it's GNU/Linux, GNU is running on top of > Linux. But if GNU was running on HURD, I think it would just be > called GNU because HURD is part of GNU. GNU running on top of GNU Linux-libre is technically GNU, if that is a GNU project's distribution. That's our view. --=20 ,=3D ,-_-. =3D. Bruno F=C3=A9lix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF] ((_/)o o(\_)) There is no system but GNU; `-'(. .)`-' GNU Linux-Libre is one of its official kernels; \_/ All software must be free as in freedom;