On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:26, Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
2008/12/6 Luke Faraone <<a href="mailto:luke@laptop.org">luke@laptop.org</a>>:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:05, Sebastian Silva <<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Uh, why?<br>
><br>
> It is, after all, a installation of RedHat's _Fedora_ OS (albiet with OLPC<br>
> modifications).<br>
<br>
</div>To put it succinctly, actually, fedora is a distribution of GNU+Linux,<br>
a free operating system. Specifically, out of GNU+Linux, the "Linux"<br>
bit represents less than 1%.</blockquote><div><br>This is more of a religious war as well as a matter of preference; RH has chosen the "Linux" branding, while Debian (the only widely popular distro to do so) uses the "GNU/" prefix. <br>
</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In a more reconciliatory note, perhaps a swarm of logos might emerge,<br>
as bemasc suggested to me on our XO Chat: GNU, Linux, fedora, python,<br>
and all the rest of the pack.</blockquote><div> </div><div>Hm... we could have a link in the "about my XO" section that opens up a page in browse that describes all the components that make up the starch stack. <br>
<br>-lf<br></div></div>