15 Sep
2017
15 Sep
'17
3:35 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:39:05PM -0700, Kurt H Maier wrote:
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 12:15:32PM -0400, Steve
Nickolas wrote:
The use of "GNU" as in "GNU/Linux" is something that was pushed by
Stallman and the Free Software Foundation, and actively abosed, or
mostly ignored by the majority of the Linux community. See [1] if you
want more details on that whole mess. Of the distributions, I believe
only Debian has adopted the use of GNU/Linux in their official
documentation, but it's not used by most Debian users or developers
from my experience.
I'll also note that Debian has pushed to use /bin/dash, as their
default /bin/sh, and not /bin/bash, to try to make Debian's shell
scripts to be more portable. (And for speed reasons, since dash is
faster than bash).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
- Ted
Isn't that pretty much just Lennart Poettering and his fan club?
It's right there in the name "GNU" as well. There's a whole
generation
of computer people out here for whom bash and gawk are fossilized in
their substrata, and they get mad when someone suggests maybe other
tools exist.