Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 07:55:54AM -0500:
> > To say it isn't an operating system may be construed as being wrong.  It
> > provides the critical component for an operating system, does it not?
> 
> So what it still is not an operating system, it is a kernel.

Would Linux/GNU OS be more appropriate? Again, these are semantic issues
and calling Linux an OS colloquially wouldn't necessarily be wrong.

-- 
Scott


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