On Jul 24, 2008, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marko Vojinovic: >>> But tell me, what is in principle The Single Most Important element >>> of the car? There is only one answer --- the engine.
> Alexandre Oliva: >> So, what remains to be justified is why you decided Linux is the >> engine rather than say one of the tires. > You can't really expect anyone to give you any credibility if you want > to argue that the kernel, the core of the system, is not the engine. By the very same argument, the most "important" piece of software in a computer running a GNU/Linux distro would be the BIOS. I don't think this reasoning holds much water. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
