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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:08:22
Message-Id: g7nscd$c3q$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands? by Grant Edwards
1 Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2008-08-10, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3 >
4 >>>> Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland?
5 >>> What do you mean by "non-Gnu"?
6 >>>
7 >>> SW for which the FSF doesn't own the copyrights?
8 >>>
9 >>> SW which is distributed under something other than one of the
10 >>> Gnu Public Licenses?
11 >> Software that does not belong to the GNU project. The GNU
12 >> project is a fixed and well defined set of software.
13 >
14 > It would then help if you could point us to that definition?
15 > Answering a question about your terminology with "my term is
16 > well defined" isn't very helpful.
17
18 Sorry. Here is the definitive list of all software provided by the GNU
19 project:
20
21 http://directory.fsf.org/GNU
22
23 Given how much software GNU provides, I imagine it's pretty much
24 impossible to find a Linux or BSD these days that is 100% GNUless.

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