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Re:New GNU Emacs website by cm3 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @04:33PM (#11655654)
The emacsrocks videos existed before the website refresh and weren't created for gnu.org, but I can imagine Richard asking for new videos to advertise the GNU platform instead.
Re:New GNU Emacs website by peatfreak on Sunday May 08, 2016 @04:37PM (#11655678)
> I can imagine Richard asking for new videos to advertise the GNU platform instead.

Me too. He often asks for corrections in light of these types of oversights (at least, it looks like an oversight to me).

Re:New GNU Emacs website by joshumax on Sunday May 08, 2016 @04:52PM (#11655762)
Maybe he'll only get half as upset because of OSX's Darwin base
Re:New GNU Emacs website by giucal on Sunday May 08, 2016 @05:43PM (#11656030)
He will more likely beat them to death.
Re:New GNU Emacs website by satysin on Sunday May 08, 2016 @04:35PM (#11655663)
Yeah this is what I figured, still kind of surprised to see the new site go live with them. It isn't all that difficult to make a simple screencast on Linux to show off some of the basics.
Re:New GNU Emacs website by cheez on Sunday May 08, 2016 @05:15PM (#11655879)
I just wanted to be annoying: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html
Re:New GNU Emacs website by yoplait_ on Sunday May 08, 2016 @06:41PM (#11656342)
Call it GNU or call it Linux. GNU/Linux is just stupid
Re:New GNU Emacs website by ktRolster on Monday May 09, 2016 @12:38AM (#11657657)
To solve that problem, I always call it GLinux but the 'G' is silent.
Re:New GNU Emacs website by cyphar on Monday May 09, 2016 @03:05AM (#11658063)
The G in GNU isn't silent. :P
Re:New GNU Emacs website by ktRolster on Monday May 09, 2016 @03:50AM (#11658192)
The G in glinux is!
Re:New GNU Emacs website by belorn on Monday May 09, 2016 @03:23AM (#11658116)
Call it by the distribution name. Calling debian and android by the same name is silly if the only common software is the kernel and a bunch of universal tools and libraries.
Re:New GNU Emacs website by yoplait_ on Monday May 09, 2016 @06:23AM (#11658697)
I don't know about Android but it's not silly at all to call Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu by a common name. I do it all the time.
Re:New GNU Emacs website by belorn on Monday May 09, 2016 @08:00AM (#11659089)
Ubuntu is a Debian-based operative system. Using the name "Debian" for both makes perfect good sense.

Fedora, i.e. Red Hat, is very distinct from Debian. A Debian software package is not guaranteed to work on Fedora, nor is a Red Hat package guaranteed to work in Debian. Both try to be semi-compatible with each other, but that does not make them identical.

A common name used in the past is "Unix" or "Unix compatible", but then what is not Unix compatible today? We could be talking about Linux compatible, but then, the vast majority of programs will work on BSD kernel as well as Linux kernels, while having stronger compatibility demands on distribution-specific technology. Maybe "systemd" or "systemd compatible" should be the new OS name?

If you tell me the distribution of your OS, it will tell me enough information to make or identify compatible software. What property is more important than that in a name?

Re:New GNU Emacs website by yoplait_ on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @06:32AM (#11666172)
ok I'll remember it for the next time I chat with you. But come on dude, most people don't care about the distribution I use, knowing that I use Linux (the OS, not the kernel) and not Windows or OSX is what they want to know. All the rest is literature. Really.
Re:New GNU Emacs website by cyphar on Monday May 09, 2016 @11:51PM (#11665039)
Okay. Debian GNU/Linux. Fedora GNU/Linux. openSUSE GNU/Linux.