Linux vs GNU Linux 2004 05 31 23 45 Hi David Gerard You seem to have removed all the clarifications of the previously vague text Encyclopedia s should be impartial and correct You have put back all the confused use of Linux and removed spelling grammar corrections Really the Linux distributions entry should be clear about what it is and impartial to any of your leanings The version you have reverted to is an umbrella description which could be read as matching more than it in fact does The text should reflect correct and actual use of the term including any that others may consider incorrect it just should not blot out either or as it does mostly at present Ok and for the other minor revisions you removed eg e g eg is just incorrectly spelt e g is the abbreviation of latin exampli gratia and should be written e g see OED for reference please predetermined pre determined preconfigure pre configure requires hyphen as conjoined words PCs IBM compatible PCs PCs is an abbreviation of Personal Computers this case only refers to IBM compatible PCs Not Apple PCs for example So presently targeted for China targeted at the Chinese market grammar is simply wrong In the Xandros section commercial proprietary Are you unaware that GNU Linux is typically commercial so the commercial point is irrelevant the relevant point is that it is PROPRIETARY commercial software There is no point emphasising a pointless piece of information cooperation co operation requires hyphen as conjoined words If you hold some position of seniority here please consider putting my clarifications back in At least consider the grammatical and spelling revisions if you are intent on the Linux use being unsuitable as present Glad to see you did not revert my Proprietary software revision My comments in this post are intended to be polite please do not consider my explanations patronising Cheers now3d I don t hold a position of editorial seniority there isn t any such thing However the Linux to GNU Linux stuff is clearly partisanism and POV pushing Please reread Talk Linux and Talk GNU Linux naming controversy And NPOV In English Linux is far and away the most common name for what you and I would prefer to be called GNU Linux pretending it isn t would not to my mind be appropriate Typos eg you re right on the others I think are arguable either way I ll have a look through 13 00 1 Jun 2004 UTC I ve had a go The facts seem more or less in order I could dispute a few bits but the whole article is really badly written and needs serious rewriting by someone who s a good writer in English I ll make an attempt later but anyone else who wants a go is of course welcome In the distro list I ve attempted to avoid Linux vs GNU Linux by sticking to the word distribution and only included one or the other when it s part of the name or when GNU is actually optional does Linux from Scratch still tell you how to use BusyBox and uClibc for instance Further work on this article is desperately needed and I mean a lot more than tweaks of hyphenation 16 48 1 Jun 2004 UTC Thank you for applying those gramatical revisions I just added co operation Regards User Now3d Jimbo Wales on GNU Linux as the correct naming convention I would like to offer my opinion The project to excise all references to GNU Linux is deeply POV and wrong It should be reverted completely and totally as quickly as possible Virtually all references to Linux should be references to GNU Linux I am certainly unaware of any community consensus which would support the draconian and absurd campaign that has been conducted against the correct naming convention Jimbo Wales talk Why is this article move protected so that it can t be given the correct name said done Old discussions Alternate Definition for Distribution When talking on the gentoo channel on freenode I found out that many gentoo ops concide