On 11/18/2015 02:24 PM, moxalt wrote:
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is
in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Depends who's version of the definition of OS you use:
Here's a quote from "The design of the unix operating system", Maurice
J. Bach, Prentice/Hall, 1986, page 4:
The operating system interacts directly with the hardware,
providing common services to programs and insulating them from hardware
idiosyncrasies. Viewing the system as a set of layers, the operating
system is commonly called the system kernel, or just the kernel,
emphasizing its isolation from user programs. Because programs are
independent of the underlying hardware, it is easy to move them between
UNIX systems running on different hardware if the programs do not make
assumptions about the underlying hardware."
http://linux.topology.org/lingl.html
"Personally, I am against re-defining the English language for political
and marketing purposes."
There ya go. Ric
--
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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