Linux is just the kernel or the most important component of the operating system. GNU/Linux is the entire operating system. It contains the Linux kernel, and GNU programs like Bash, GCC, EMACS etc which help make a complete OS.
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
Duh !! I am sorry, but what is the difference between Linux and GNU\Linux ?
Regards Saswata
----- Original Message ----- From: "Nagarjuna G." nagarjun@hbcse.tifr.res.in To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] HappyDiwali thanx to BILL to bill in BusinessWorld
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 02:49:16AM -0800, Trevor Warren wrote:
will deviate the purpose. The reason why I cannot swallow everything that Charles wrote in Business India is because, the media is now manufacturing a new concent. As you saw the article talked about economics but not about business ethics, freedom and philosophy.
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Nag, i will add my own opinion to this debate.....................
I do agree with your point of view regarding the total lack of focus on the ethical/philosophy part of the Free Software Movement and how it differs from the way M$ goes around doing its business.
But also.....time and again the media needs to kick up the dust and stir a hornets nest just to ensure that people don't stop buying their stories and increase their circulation.
Personall sir........i think charles has done a DECENT job of unbiased reporting. But probably from your perspective there exists a LOT of LACUNAE on reporting on the ethical/philosophy part.
I am only using Charles as a scape goat. (Sorry Charles! There are many like you all over the world.) Why do you say he did an unbiased reporting? He did what he thought people will like, and possibly that is the reason why he used `Linux' in plece of GNU/Linux. This is a bias. He, while, composing has judged for the community that it is Linux. This is how journalists manufacture consent and sustain the vicious circle. He writes that it is only the job of the purists to call it GNU/Linux, implying that people at large need not take those seriously. He succeeded in catching the attention for it was a cover story, and he should be congratulated.
Nagarjuna
Bhargav Bhatt Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York.