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LinuxCon 2010 Call for Papers
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| The Linux Foundation has announced that the
| Call for Papers deadline for LinuxCon 2010
| will be the 31st of March. Registration for
| the non-profit organisation's second annual
| conference, which will take place from the
| 10th to the 12th of August, 2010 in Boston
| Massachusetts, is now open. Jim Zemlin,
| executive director of The Linux Foundation
| said that, âLinuxCon has quickly become the
| destination for collaborating in person on all
| matters Linux".
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/LinuxCon-2010-Call-for-Papers-921124.html
There's nothing wrong with being thankful (or why I say GNU/Linux)
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| For example, simplicity for newcomers: What
| about when you have a distro that doesn't have
| Linux inside of it? Say, Debian's hurd or
| kFreeBSD or NetBSD ports? Those are distros,
| but Linux is not to be found inside cause it
| (the kernel) has been replaced for another
| kernel. What are we gonna call them? Debian
| Non-Linux? Go figure how you will explain that
| to newcomers ("sure... it's Debian Linux...
| but it has no linux... yet it is linux".
| Priceless).
|
| Some people have said that it's out of
| Stallman's big ego that he wants everybody to
| call it GNU. Well, I think Stallman hits the
| nail (at least on the funny part) when he says
| that "sure... and that's why I ask people to
| call it Stallmanix". So I think it's not out
| of ego... but maybe if he had named the OS
| Stallmanix in the first place, we wouldn't be
| having this argument as it (too) is more
| catchy than GNU. :-)
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http://maratux.blogspot.com/2010/01/theres-nothing-wrong-with-being.html
Recent:
The Wikipedia "Naming Controversy" by Joshua Gay
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| On the English version of Wikipedia there is an article that discusses the
| naming controversy over whether one should call the operating
| system âGNU/Linuxâ or âLinux.â In that article, some contend that Linux is
| the more popular and common name for the system. But when writing an
| encyclopedia, neither popularity nor commonality are the paramount concerns.
| Calling the system âGNU/Linuxâ is more factually accurate, as the GNU project
| largely forms the base of all distributions of the operating system. For
| example, GNU packages accounts for 14.79% of the 16.5GB of source packages
| used to build the Main repository of the gNewSense GNU/Linux distribution
| (deltad). They also constitute 6.69% of the 27GBs of source packages from
| which the Universe repository is built. Linux weighs in at about 253MB and
| accounts for approximately 1.5% of the source code needed to build the Main
| repository. Furthermore, Linux itself is generally built using GNU libraries
| and GNU tools, and on many systems depends on them being there.
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http://exploringfreedom.org/2008/07/17/the-wikipedia-naming-controversy-by-joshua-gay/
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