Timeline for Is [GNU] a manufacturer meta tag?
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| Sep 16, 2016 at 20:15 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor |
It seem from reading here that the GNU tag is close to useless, and often missuses. However people want a GNU tag. Therefore give them a GNU tag, give them GNU/Linux (A rename of Linux). Also create a Linux-kernel tag. Then in about 20 years when people are ready, we can rename GNU/Linux to reflect that the questions are not about Linux but about the GNU tools, and applications that run on them.
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| Sep 10, 2016 at 16:34 | comment | added | fixer1234 | @richard, I agree. The real issues are that 1) only a tiny percentage of the tag's usage is for that meaning, and 2) even within that meaning, for most of the actual usage, the GNU tag is more "seasoning" than context that differentiates something useful for tagging purposes (like Anthony Geoghegan's point in his answer). It isn't that anybody has anything against GNU OS, it's about tagging GNU questions in a way that serves a useful tag purpose rather than decoration. | |
| Sep 10, 2016 at 16:13 | comment | added | ctrl-alt-delor | The Gnu OS is any operating system based on the Gnu tools, such as Gnu/Linux (Gnu with Linux kernel), Gnu/BSD (Gnu with BSD kernel), Gnu/Hurd (Gnu with Hurd kernel), Gnu/cygwin (Gnu with cydwin.dll on microsoft's windows, so a virtual operating system within Microsofts windows.) | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 10:52 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/773836338101714944 | ||
| Sep 7, 2016 at 0:07 | answer | added | fixer1234 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 16:45 | comment | added | Hastur | Hi, with GNU I understand that it is a software free, that it is probably compliant with GPL, that it is a version of that command that it allows some options rather than others or a different way to write the parameters (less strict), that I can find the source code, and recompile it, that I probably will find different windows style (and the object below, memory requests) if under a windows OS, probably a different organization under the drop down menus...speaking about OS that it is not an OSX or a BSD one... but that it can be installed under them too... Why to delete it? | |
| Sep 6, 2016 at 16:28 | answer | added | Hastur | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 21:22 | answer | added | Anthony Geoghegan | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 20:53 | history | edited | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
update re:hurd
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| Sep 5, 2016 at 17:18 | comment | added | Anthony Geoghegan | For what it’s worth, there are just 3 questions using this tag which are related to Hurd, the (permanently?) experimental GNU kernel: superuser.com/search?q=%5Bgnu%5D+hurd | |
| Sep 2, 2016 at 6:09 | history | asked | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |