[nzlug] RMS Itinerary Update

[Toby Collett]

Or to take the opposite point, If you are going to worry about whether it is
Linux or GNU/Linux, should you not embrace all of the desktop software that
is not under the GNU or GPL umbrella. Should we not just skip straight to
FOSS/Linux? apart from FUGs being a fairly ungainly acronym...

Toby

2008/7/12 Bruce Kingsbury <zcat at zcat.geek.nz>:

> > > Is busybox 'gnu' software?
> >
> > You still use gcc to compile it....
> >
> >
> That doesn't make busybox or linux 'gnu' software. Besides, there are a
> number of other c compilers that you could use, if you really wanted to.
>
> Just thinking about this a little more, the number of Busybox+Linux
> embedded
> devices, for example practically every DSL router, SIPphone or ATA adapter,
> network camera or PVR, might already be greater than the number of
> "Gnu/Linux" desktop and server installs. I don't know the numbers on this,
> but it seems to me that all those Windows users who outnumber us by more
> than ten to one are pretty often using a Linux-based router to get on teh
> intarweb.
>
> So in answer to Simon; yes, I can think of a few cases where Linux is used
> without the Gnu tools.
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