[wellylug] Forking Linux.

[Rob Giltrap]

Pete Black wrote:

> Linux is an OS kernel. Simple as that.

So the common use of 'Linux' referring to a distribution containing the 
kernel and all the other software is invalid? If so, what is the correct 
term? How do we get the masses to use that correct term? And if the 
wrong term is so widely used, has it now changed from wrong to right?

>
> Solaris with X.org/GNOME etc. might as well be called GNU/Solaris, in 
> the same way as a more strictly 'correct' term for what we know as 
> 'Linux' would be GNU/Linux.

If GNU is 'GNUs Not Unix' and Solaris is Unix then how can we have 
GNU/Solaris? Now my brain is going to explode.