Re: [ART] Background image for GRUB

[Omar Radwan <toxemicsquire4@gmail.com>]

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>I wonder if RMS has a good argument to justify his insistence in the
>truthfulness of the equation 'GNU = GNU/Hurd' beyond the well-known
>historical and technical ones.

I see where you get that idea from. Linux-libre is just a deblobbed fork of
the Linux kernel and the project which manages Linux-libre is a GNU
project,
But it's not the real GNU kernel, so it would still have to be called
GNU/Linux-libre, or GNU/Linux. And with Linux-libre, and almost all forked
projects that I have ever seen(MATE, Trinity, illumos, openIndiana, and the
*BSD's to some extent), there is usually too much code for the project to
handle, and it becomes a mess. The Linux kernel is approximately ~10
million lines of code, with a huge team, very hard to just fork it and make
it your own. While the HURD is much smaller(with Mach I think I've read
somewhere that it's about 200,000 lines of code) codebase wise. And it is
written in GNU C style and doesn't have many small "hack" or shortcuts
taken by the Linux kernel to achieve very fast speeds.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <
oitofelix@gnu.org> wrote:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
>
> > Agreed.  But note that RMS asked me to not insist on calling the OS
> > “the GNU system”, at least for now (AIUI, his main concern is that
> > GNU = GNU/Hurd, which is not currently supported.)
>
> I wonder if RMS has a good argument to justify his insistence in the
> truthfulness of the equation 'GNU = GNU/Hurd' beyond the well-known
> historical and technical ones.
>
> From a strategical perspective, I fail to see why the distinction
> between GNU/Linux-libre and GNU/Hurd could be of any relevance.  IMHO,
> calling both simply "GNU" would help in the promotion of the GNU
> project and its ideals.  That would not cause confusion, because GNU
> would be defined as an operating system of multiple kernels, and
> technical-inclined people would always know how to tell the difference
> when needed or appropriate.
>
> --
>  ,= ,-_-. =.  Bruno Félix 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;
>
>
>

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