From 09b287224a299301f00850bd91479413fa178519 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:27:53 +0200 Subject: hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking: Split out of faq.en.in. --- hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking.mdwn | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking.mdwn (limited to 'hurd/faq') diff --git a/hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking.mdwn b/hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f6073376 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008 Free Software +Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[meta title="Grammatically speaking, what is the Hurd?"]] + +*Hurd*, as an acronym, stands for *Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons*. *Hird*, in +turn, stands for *Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth*. + +We treat *Hurd* as a title rather than as a proper name: it requires an +article, as in *the Hurd*. For instance: *The ext2 filesystem is provided by +the Hurd, not by Mach.* Note that all of the following are incorrect: *Hurd*, +*HURD*, *The HURD*, and *the hurd*. + +We write *the GNU Hurd* instead of *the Hurd* when we want to emphasize that +the Hurd is a GNU package. Once this has been made clear, we usually use the +shorter form, without *GNU*. + +The whole operating system includes not only the kernel and the system servers, +but also many more programs. This system is called *GNU*, or *the GNU +operating system*. The GNU programs can also run on other operating system +kernels. We say *GNU/Hurd* when we want to put emphasis on the fact that this +is the GNU system running on top of the Hurd, and to contrast it with the +GNU/Linux system which is GNU using Linux as the kernel. + +Finally, there is *Debian GNU/Hurd*. This refers to the distribution of the GNU +system as created by the Debian developers. For example: *What do you run on +your laptop? Debian GNU/Hurd, of course.* + +The French generally write *le Hurd*--that is, they treat the name as masculine +singular, capitalized as in English. + +When we are referring to the microkernel, we say *Mach* and use it as a proper +noun. For example: *Mach uses the device drivers found in version 2.0.x of +Linux.* We sometimes say *the Mach microkernel* instead of just *Mach*. -- cgit v1.2.3