On 12/29/06, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 29-Dec-06, at 11:02 AM, Vihan Pandey wrote: >> ok - GCC, glibc, bash, binutils, coreutils. That is the GNU operating >> system. > > > i don't think that would be completely right. GNU is not a > production ready > operating system(yet). Only with a kernel like Linux, xBSD, etc... > can you > call it an operating system. Though it is said that when HURD is > production > ready, that entity can be called the GNU operating system. then what happens to the slogan 'linux is the kernel and GNU is the operating system'?
Linux is *a* kernel, in the sense that linux is one of GNU's kernels. Get any free kernel and combine with the GNU system, you get a free *nix operating system. Nagarjuna -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
