> Linux is an operating system because, without the kernel, you won't have an operating system.
True, but it's only half the story.
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Once again, a long, detailed article that attempts to describe the nature of Linux, and speaks of the "kernel" vs. the "operating system", without once mentioning either GNU or Richard Stallman without which Linux-the-operating-system would be nothing but a kernel.
Are all these writers under 25 years old? Are they really that ignorant of GNU?
Don't get me wrong, I think Stallman's just as much an arrogant socialist asshole as Torvalds is. I'm not defending the man. But to talk about Linux-the-operating-system without mentioning the major project (GNU) that provided the vast majority of the non-kernel open-source code to the Linux operating system, is just unfair.
Oh, well, nobody cares any more about such things. Worse, perhaps, nobody knows. It's like some somebody describing the nature of America, without bothering to mention the Constitution or George Washington. Nobody cares. Sigh.
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Re: 11 - All good points.