Re: Use of the name 'Linux' to refer to GNU/Linux



We are working hard in order to have a revamped wgo by the GNOME 2.18
release. Would you mind waiting until the new site is out? This
problem will be fixed there. Personally I putting all my time in the
wgo revamp and I haven't touched the current cvs/svn based wgo since
ages.

Thank you for your understanding.

On 2/24/07, Guy Johnston <guydjohnston googlemail com> wrote:
Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi Guy,
>
> Le dimanche 11 février 2007, à 21:13, Guy Johnston a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've noticed on the home page of the GNOME site, that it reads "GNOME
>> offers an easy to understand desktop for your Linux or UNIX computer."
>> The use of the name 'Linux' here is clearly referring to the whole
>> GNU/Linux operating system, rather than just the Linux kernel. As the
>> GNOME project is committed to the goals of the free software movement,
>> and is part of the GNU project (as far as I know), I'd have thought the
>> project leaders would prefer to use the name 'GNU/Linux' for the system,
>> to properly reflect how important the roles of the GNU project and the
>> ideals of free software are for the development of this operating
>> system, which I assume is the most common operating system GNOME is used
>> with. Therefore, please considering changing this reference to read
>> 'GNU/Linux' instead of 'Linux'.
>
> We already agreed on this a few months ago:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2006-October/msg00022.html
>
> We only need someone to actually do it, so I'll cc gnome-web-list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vincent
>

Hi, is this being fixed? I've noticed that this still seems to be a problem.

Thanks,

Guy
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