From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Guix and The OS name?
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 17:29:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ionhp06t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mz1b7l2.fsf@taylan.uni.cx> (Taylan Ulrich Bayirli's message of "Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:13:13 +0300")
Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer <taylanbayirli@gmail.com> skribis:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> So the distribution is called “the GNU system”, or “GNU”.
>
> Hrm, isn't Guix also the name of the distro?
>
> https://gnu.org/s/guix/ says that "GNU Guix is a purely functional
> package manager for the GNU system, and a distribution thereof." And
> then the Guix logo has the "The GNU System" subtitle, and the page is
> about both the package manager and the distro, etc.
Yeah, there’s some ambiguity here.
> I suppose it makes sense to use the more specific name Guix when
> differentiating between GNU/Linux distros, talking about this specific
> project, etc., although the resulting distro is also *the* GNU distro.
I see what you mean.
OTOH I find it important to insist on the fact that GNU is a concrete
operating system. The fact that the “Download GNU” button on gnu.org
points to a mere list of GNU/Linux distribution isn’t helping the image
and strength of the GNU project, and cohesion within the project.
This is why I think we must build the actual GNU system, as initially
envisioned.
This is a conclusion I and others reached a few years ago at the GHM and
on gnu-system-discuss [0]. Similar motivations led to GSRC earlier.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
[0] See the thread that starts at
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-system-discuss/2012-03/msg00000.html>
and continues the following months.
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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
2014-07-01 12:13 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer
2014-07-01 15:29 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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