On Friday 29 December 2006 08:04, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 29-Dec-06, at 7:33 AM, Harsh Busa wrote: > >> What precisely are the applications/tools that comprise the GNU > >> operating system? > > > > when in doubt ask wikipedia > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU > > ok - GCC, glibc, bash, binutils, coreutils. That is the GNU > operating system.
That is what u will need WITH a kernel - any kenel (bsd, mach, plan9, qnx, reactos etc AFAIK) to make an operating system. Remove these and u cant do a thing with the kernel - any kernel. But we are meandering into the forest, arguing about attribution only. And again missing the main point. The attribution is important only because it points to the importance of freedom and the dangers of not making people acutely aware of the fact. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
