Re: GNU/Linux Naming

[Noah Slater]

On 07/12/2007, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> 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/>

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