On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:07:08 -0600, Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/17/2009 at 4:53 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: >-snip- >> He also said, "Linux is not an operating system". > >He's right, it's not. Strictly speaking, Linux is the kernel (think >IEANUC01), and nothing else. That's one of the reasons Richard >Stallman thinks it should be called "GNU/Linux" because many of >the other things that make up an operating system were originally >developed by the Free Software Foundation. Of course, that >would be cumberson and also slight all the non-FSF projects out >there that contribute to the OS, so few non-Debian users do that. Well, ok, but the author never once referred to "GNU/Linux". He referred to Linux throughout the article as though it was much more than just the kernel. I don't think that he was trying to make that distinction. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
