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In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, devnull@iprimus.c0m.au transmitted:
> In article <861yable58.fsf@potato.vegetable.org.uk>, Tim Haynes wrote:
>> ruhl@4dv.net (Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>) writes:
>> 
>>> Sami Sihvonen <ss@janiika.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Please tell me more about Linux-kernel based operating systems that
>>>> use no GNU Project efforts.  I have been asking it several times
>>>> here and got no replies.
>>>
>>> The _point_ is that it's possible, and therefor that the GNU tools are
>>> not required for a usable system. It might not be what either of us would
>>> consider particularly useful, but it's possible.
>> 
>> What crap. The `_point_', as you call it, is that what you actually have,
>> in reality, on the CD in front of you, has GNU bits & pieces from a
>> fundamental level up (glibc, fileutils, textutils,...), therefore it's fair
>> enough to call it GNU/Linux.
>
> Why? The "GNU/Linux" hype is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Hardly.  The _most_ ridiculous thing ever was when Microsoft was
marketing the new "Microsoft Chrome" system, the supreme irony being
that it was _perfectly_ characterized by the Jargon File definition...

<http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/c/chrome.html>

"chrome n.  [from automotive slang via wargaming] Showy features added
to attract users but contributing little or nothing to the power of a
system. "The 3D icons in Motif are just chrome, but they certainly are
pretty chrome!" Distinguished from bells and whistles by the fact that
the latter are usually added to gratify developers' own desires for
featurefulness. Often used as a term of contempt."


> Do you call UNIX AT&T/MIT/Sun/HP/IBM/Novell/DEC/BSD/UNIX? Didn't
> think so.

> As has been stated before, the name isn't a bibliography.

Indeed.
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