[Gllug] GLLUG ->Gnu Linux London Users Group

[Dan Kolb]

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On Sunday 17 Feb 2002 21:07 pm, E. R. Vaughan wrote:
> > Doesn't calling it a GNU/Linux users group discriminate against people
> > who use Perl/Linux
> What's Perl usually compiled with?

Does it matter? If you've got a binary version of Perl, then you haven't 
touched GCC itself.

> > My beliefs in what's right and good are not altered by names. I couldn't
> care
> > if Richard Stallman called his organisation AOL/Time-Warner/GNU.
>
> RMS has never said the Linux system is called GNU/Linux. People who think
> he does do not listen/read carefully. He *asks* people to call it that for
> PR, as to quote him from last tuesday "we really need it". The point is,
> GNU needs publicising. Also, Linux can run without X-Windows, it can't
> compile without gcc.

I think someone did get it to compile without gcc, although they had to 
modify the source code considerably. And just because it requires GCC to 
compile, that doesn't mean it should automatically be called GNU/Linux.
GNU does need publicising. Changing the names of mailing lists isn't one of 
the ways to do it, and is more likely to put people off the lists - it'll do 
more harm than good.

> How about "GNU and Linux London Users Group"? (i.e. without the /)

How about "GNU, Linux, Solaris and *BSD London and Surrounding Area Users 
Group"? No? I thought not.

> The term "Greater London" is archaic anyway. I think this would be a great
> gesture and might even get a mention on Linux Today or something...

Yes, if it's a slow news day. "LUG changes its name after a Richard Stallman 
talk".

Dan
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