On Apr 1, 2002 at 02:05, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
--- Satya satyap@satya.virtualave.net wrote:
No, it's not. The OS is the kernel, everything else is in userspace.
I can't help it ... I just have to keep posting URL's everytime ... here's another one :-)
"There really is a Linux; it is a kernel, and these people are using
Pretty much what I said.
it. But you can't use a kernel by itself; a kernel is useful only as
Hmm, sounds GNUish.
<tweety>I did, I did see a GNUy-tat!</tweety>
No, then those OSen would also be Linux. You are referring to Redhat, Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, Caldera, etc.
Now you are confused ... they are GNU/Linux distros!
So they are. (RMS may be okay with saying "GL" when speaking.)