Richard Stallman scripsit: > Judging from your description, adding Cygwin32 to Windows makes is a > system that looks somewhat like GNU/Linux (or equally, somewhat like > Unix). But it still has all of Windows in it. A little more than "looks somewhat like": the actual GNU programs are being executed there, with a translation layer (Cygwin proper) that simulates a GNU kernel (not the Hurd, more like Linux). > Well, you might be able to do that. And if you deleted all the > Windows DLLs and graphical applications, you might end up with > something which is the GNU system plus the kernel of Windows. > > That would justify the name GNU/<kernel-of-Windows>. (I don't know > the name of the kernel of Windows; I have never been a Windows user.) Windows comes in several flavors which do not share a common kernel. In addition, NT uses the term "kernel" in the sense of "microkernel"; the analog to the Unix kernel is known as the "Windows NT executive". > Those programs, the compilation tools, are just a part of the GNU > operating system. Is what is "part of GNU" and what is simply "GNU-compatible" defined explicitly somewhere? http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html disclaims completeness. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
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