[Nottingham] “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”

Michael Dorrington michael.dorrington at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 18:39:36 UTC 2012


On 28/11/12 11:46, Mike Martin wrote:
<snip>
> Tbh "linux" is probably a better term for the result than RMS favoured
> GNU/Linux as off the top my head the following items which probably
> most people regard as core are not GNU
> 
> perl/python (depending on distro)
> xorg
> apache
> mysql
> gnome/KDE/XFCE

Gnome is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project#GNOME

What's in a Name?
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html

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