Re: [gentoo-dev] License criteria for Gentoo

[Moritz Schulte <moritz@duesseldorf.ccc.de>]

"Thomas M. Beaudry" <k8la@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Actually an argument for leaving the name as-is.  Then you have
> Gentoo Linux, Gentoo Hurd, etc. depending on the kernel that you are
> booting.

Well, no.  "Gentoo Hurd" would not be correct - for the same reason
"Gentoo Linux" is not considered correct.  Either it should be "Gentoo
GNU/Hurd" - or simply "Gentoo GNU" - since the Hurd is the official
GNU core and therefore "the GNU system" implies "Hurd based".  It's
the same with Debian; we have Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/Hurd.

Btw: the Hurd is not a kernel (that's why I said "core", actually we
don't have a single word to describe what the Hurd is).  The Hurd
consists entirely of user space components, which run on top of a
Microkernel (Mach, at the moment, but the port to the
second-generation microkernel L4 is underway) to provide the system
services one would expect from a Unix like system (file systems,
networking stacks, processes, user/group IDs, authentication, etc.).

Thanks.
		moritz
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