From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Quiliro Ordóñez Baca" <quiliro@congresolibre.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guix and The OS name?
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 11:45:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnt91kgy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53B276AC.9020003@congresolibre.org> ("Quiliro Ordóñez Baca"'s message of "Tue, 01 Jul 2014 03:51:56 -0500")
Quiliro Ordóñez Baca <quiliro@congresolibre.org> skribis:
> I thought Blag, Dragora, Dynebolic, gNewSense, Musix, Parabola,
> Trisquel and Ututo were distros of the GNU operating system. But you
> say that the GNU operating system has Guix. Those distros do not have
> Guix. What would they be in relation to GNU then? ¿Not GNU (NG)?
Right, these distros are pretty much distros of the GNU system, although
they may use non-GNU packages in cases where they could use the GNU
package instead, for instance.
However, they’re not part of the GNU project, and thus they are not
“the GNU system.”
Ah, naming...
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-01 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-30 20:02 Guix and The OS name? Adam Pribyl
2014-06-30 20:29 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-07-01 8:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-01 8:51 ` Quiliro Ordóñez Baca
2014-07-01 9:45 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2014-07-01 12:13 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-07-01 15:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
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