On Mar 31, 2002 at 23:29, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote: >--- Satya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> GNOME, KDE, Pine, sendmail, gcc, ls, etc. are not Linux. They're GNU >> (or whoever) tools which happen to work with Linux. > >Don't you think that it is easier to say that what you use is the GNU
I don't know about "easier". You're stating something else, and your statement may be stating the converse of my statement. Both are true. >operating system, where Linux just happens to be the kernel? I don't No, it's not. The OS is the kernel, everything else is in userspace. >think there are many other OS's that use Linux as the kernel. Heck, No, then those OSen would also be Linux. You are referring to Redhat, Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, Caldera, etc. >once HURD is properly introduced, there will be people who will have a >GNU system but no Linux at all! Yup, that's right. The GNU stuff that comes with a typical Linux distro is compiled against Linux kernel headers and with Linux ways of doing things, and so works with Linux. I think libc is GNU, isn't it? Assuming it is, it would have to be compiled against a Linux kernel to work on Linux. -- Satya. <URL:http://satya.virtualave.net/> Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
