[HCoop-Discuss] HCoop and Ping! Magazine Article

[Michael Olson]

Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> writes:

> Michael Olson wrote:
>> One minor nitpick: let's call it "Debian GNU/Linux" instead of "Debian
>> Linux", because that's the full name of the OS, as can be seen on the
>> front page of Debian's website.
>
> Regardless of what the "correct" answer is, I know that anyone using the 
> phrase "GNU/Linux" is tagged as a loonie by a significant fraction of 
> our prospective member base.  Of course, anyone using "Linux" alone is 
> tagged as a jerk by another significant fraction.  Thus, I now plan just 
> to call it "Debian" to avoid taking sides.

I don't see any problem with calling a distribution by the name that
it itself uses, but whatever.  I would not call Ubuntu Linux "Ubuntu
GNU/Linux", for example (even though I prefer the latter), because it
is not the name that the distributors chose for it.

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