On 07/12/2007, Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [... crying revisionism ...]
Your posts are needlessly offencive and antagonistic. Please stop. > <http://www.usermode.org/docs/gnulinux.html> Again, you are citing incorrect or misinformed sources. Just because you can boot a system with a kernel does not make it an operating system. You could take the chassis of a car and roll it down a hill, but that does not make it a car. An operating system is the combination of the kernel, the c library, the shell and the core user space utilities. Nothing more, nothing less. This is specified and standardised in the POSIX specifications - which you have clearly not read or even familiarised your self with. GNU provides the GNU C Library, GNU Bash and the GNU Core Utilities. Linux provides the Linux kernel. Without all of these components it is not an operating system according to POSIX. -- Noah Slater <http://bytesexual.org/> "Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results." - R. Stallman _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
