Re: Linux isn't an operating system

cjs (cjs@netcom.com)
Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:11:25 -0800 (PST)

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> on NASA TV last week indicate that computers running under the Linux
> operating system are being used on STS-75. Linux is powerful 32-bit
> multiuser, multitasking operating system similar to Unix in many ways
> except cost and licensing....
>
> Linux was designed a few short years ago by Linus Torvalds, a graduate...
>
> This article makes a common mistake: confusing the whole operating
> system with the kernel. Linus Torvalds wrote the kernel, Linux. A
> whole operating systems consists of Linux and many other programs,
> which were written by a great many people.

BAHAHA!

Since when has an operating system been defined as "a kernel and many
other programs?"

Probably about the time they started considering Windows3.x an
operating system, right?

I'm seriously gonna loose all respect for you if you keep making stuff
up like this.

> There are a number of whole operating systems using the Linux kernel,
> Most of them are more or less close variants of the GNU system, so I
> recommend the term "Linux-based GNU system" for them.
>
> I'm going to talk to the author of the article about this distinction.
>
>
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