Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Mon, 04 Jan 1999 21:33:33 -0500

In message <36906A16.BD520C3E@his.com>, David Feuer writes:
+-----
| > IOW the correct config.guess triple *should* be "x86-pc-linux". Or
| > "x86-gnu-linux"; an accurate statement, since the userspace code is
| > something like 85% FSF code (and this nicely ends the current argument).
| > "i?86-pc-linux-gnu" is silly, and "i?86-{redhat,suse,...}-linux{,-gnu}" is
| > sillier.
|
| GNU is not a linux vendor. I think that field should never have
+--->8

No, but they're the "OEM" of the user-space component of all existing Linux
distributions. One can envision a Linux kernel with a BSD libc, which would
carry a canonical triple of "x86-bsd-linux". Or even Sun pulling some
strangeness for low-end systems, with a Solaris-derived libc
("x86-sun-linux").

Yeah, "pc" is pretty lousy --- but it's also what's already in use. Then
again, as a behavior selector it's pretty much useless. The hypothetical
systems above would also qualify for it....

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