Talk:Linux (disambiguation)

message: * Oppose.  I created this page.  Chris Pickett 07:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: However, after reading the opinions below, I have changed my mind.  See discussion for details.  --Chris Pickett 18:17, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Go ahead and remove from WP:RM, but I think we should leave the discussion/survey up as a reference. --Chris Pickett 22:01, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's your call. I was just asking, it's not like I'm salivating to remove the thing ASAP. If you think there might be a turn in discussion, and leaving it up would help, then it's fine with me. -Patstuarttalk|edits 06:25, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: 'Linux' redirects to 'GNU/Linux' and says at the top 'This page is about the operating system, GNU/Linux - a combination of 'Linux (kernel)' and 'GNU Operating System', for uses outsides of computing, see 'Linux (disambiguation)'
That way, most people going to GNU/Linux or Linux will see the article they're probably looking for, given the ambiguous naming, but the article to the kernel and to GNU sans Linux would also be available.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Mattl (talk • contribs) 16:21, December 14, 2006 (UTC)
:Before proposing such things I'd recommend you read a little bit in archives (Talk:Linux) to see that the old dead horse has been beaten too much by now. -- AdrianTM 18:09, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia has a long-standing practice to use the common name of a subject in the title of an article. Operating systems based on the Linux kernel, which typically including GNU components among many other things, are more commonly referred to as Linux by users, developers, and the media. Wikipedia does not and should not advocate or promote one name over the other. –  Anþony  talk  18:42, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sophistry.  Yes, the article is DNA not de-oxyribonucleicacid.  But it is Mercedes-Benz not Mercedes despite the more common almost universal use of "Mercedes".  The fact is that the above mentioned "use the common name" rule works well when there is no controversy and no disambiguation issue.  But it is only by context whether we know "Linux" to refer to the kernel or to an o/s containing the kernel.  More and more, now, "linux" is used as a proxy in the pop media to refer to all FOSS.  Using the above arg I should pop over to the FOSS article in a year or two and rename it "Linux".  No.  Disambiguation and controversy surrounds the use of "Linux".  By taking one usage over the others we are taking a POV in an ongoing political debate.  Paul Beardsell (talk) 01:50, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  See Talk:Linux for exhaustive discussion of this issue, including the bogus Mercedes analogy. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 23:36, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about this? 

message: Extraordinary that the asteroid is notable but Linux (washing powder) was deleted as not being notable.  Only a crowd of geeks (Hey, I'm one too!) could think that a chunk of rock in outer space is more notable than that which is used by 1000's to wash their clothes every week.  Paul Beardsell (talk) 13:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:N. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 13:57, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Chunk of rock.  Paul Beardsell (talk) 13:58, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Washing powder