This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: [libc-alpha] Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002
- From: Richard Stallman <rms at gnu dot org>
- To: kaz at ashi dot footprints dot net
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 15:03:49 -0700 (MST)
- Subject: Re: [libc-alpha] Re: [open-source] Re: Wish for 2002
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201071928260.16649-100000@ashi.FootPrints.net>
- Reply-to: rms at gnu dot org
Are the porters whore are moving code from Sun or BSD to Linux really
in desperate need for help from glibc?
SunOS and BSD are operating systems, but Linux is just a kernel.
These people are porting to the GNU/Linux operating system,
in which the kernel is Linux and the C library is Glibc.
If you call the whole system "Linux", you give other people a mistaken
picture of the system's name and origin. They will think its
development was started in 1991 by Linux Torvalds. (Actually, most of
the system was already developed when he began writing Linux.) By
calling the system "GNU/Linux" you can correct this confusion.
See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.