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author | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2008-11-05 12:29:44 +0100 |
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committer | Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org> | 2008-11-05 12:29:44 +0100 |
commit | 1025353771167067d3a6f8eca98ee3e7ece44be1 (patch) | |
tree | 94d6e74841b2dd658b176e23a34b5703d5e501e4 /hurd/faq | |
parent | d1e821a382c0b07ba74dc7d6c4c68458773b3484 (diff) |
Unify perhaps a thousand paragraphs stating what *the Hurd* is.
Hurd/TheGnuHurd -> hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd
hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking -> hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/gramatically_speaking
Hurd/HurdNames, hurd-name.html -> hurd/what_is_the_gnu_hurd/origin_of_the_name
Etc.
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/faq')
-rw-r--r-- | hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking.mdwn | 42 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking.mdwn b/hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 7aa3edac..00000000 --- a/hurd/faq/gramatically_speaking.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,42 +0,0 @@ -[[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*. |