> The "Linux kernel console" -- as the user sees it on a GNU/Linux system-- > is typically just a process started by the kernel which runs "/bin/sh". > > So when the user interacts with the console, he is interacting with > GNU software (e.g. bash), not the kernel.
In this context the user is always (indirectly) interacting with the kernel. The shell needn't be bash though, it might be tcsh. I guess you could login with no GNU software (init, mingetty, login, tcsh ?) although presumably you couldn't do much useful. I think calling it the GNU/Linux console could harm the GNU Project: it could create a backlash from kernel developers who are currently sympathetic to the use of GNU/Linux to describe the system. Nick _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
