Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU-Linux on Wikipedia

[erikthorsen]

A collection of utilities is just that. It's userspace stuff, and it's  
entirely useless without a kernel to sit on top of. Kernel space is kernel  
space, and user space is user space. Any modern system will distinguish  
clearly between the two.
Which if nothing else is nicely illustrated by putting a very clear dividing  
line between the two. GNU/Linux.

I'll happily pardon the local nature, but not the irrelevance. Partly since I  
never claimed the kernel was the only important thing (although I'd argue it  
is the most important thing), but mostly because the two things are so  
dissimilar. Equating software to roads and the internet to a series of tubes  
won't get you any useful conclusions.