"Noah Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 07/12/2007, Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does the following help, mini-RMS? > > Seriously, WTF is this? mini-RMS? What kind of thing is that to say? > > The whole passage you quoted is wrong. The POSIX specifcations lays > out what comprises an operating system (mainly a kernel, c library, > shell, user space tools)
Uh, no. The POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) specification specifies at several levels what comprises a UNIX-like API. For example, there are Windows systems with some degree of POSIX certification. The POSIX specs most certainly don't define what an operating system _is_. > of which GNU provides everything apart from the kernel in a GNU/Linux > operating system. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
