Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Does a system become a `glibc platform' if one uses gnulib?
No, it doesn't, because - the term 'platform' or 'system' denotes the basic OS + base libraries, - Gnulib does not emcompass glibc. > Seeing > that all or most of the things glibc provides, so does gnulib. Gnulib is far away from providing all that glibc provides. See https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Glibc-Header-File-Substitutes.html and https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Glibc-Function-Substitutes.html > * RMS decided that the NetBSD kernel, plus the NetBSD libc, plus GNU > userland is a GNU system and to be called "GNU/NetBSD". [1] > Whereas the NetBSD kernel, plus glibc, plus GNU userland is to be > called "GNU/kNetBSD". [2] > > I could not find this decision in those two references, both are pages > from Debian, and nothing from RMS on the topic. You can trust my memory on this statement, even though I can't find the precise mail where RMS announced this decision. It was probably in 2001. > - Is Alpine Linux a GNU system? (It uses musl libc instead of glibc.) [4] > > No, Alpine is not based on the GNU system ... > > - Is Windows with WSL and a GNU distro a GNU system? [5][6] > > Windows is the operating system here, that is what your computer is > running. Just becaues you run another operating system inside an > existing one, doesn't mean that one becomes the other. While you can answer these questions (and I agree with the answers), the mere fact that these questions appear on reddit shows that the term "GNU system" is not as unambiguous as one might wish. Bruno
