[wplug] Re: GNU/Linux or Politically Correct Computing

[John Harrold]

Sometime in February Steven Leach assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Or think of it this way:   If someone posted a message to say 
| debian-user that said "how do I recompile Linux?" they would appear to 
| be a moron and would probably not get any useful responses like they 
| would if they posted "how do I recompile the kernel".

it this were posted to debian-user, i'm sure the users on that list would
_assume_ he is referring to the kernel. of the distros out there, debian
and it's users are the most likely to differentiate between linux (the
kernel) and gnu/linux (the kernel and everything else). now if somone
posted that on on a mandrake or redhat list, there might be some confusion.

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