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Re: GNU/Linux Naming
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David Kastrup |
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Re: GNU/Linux Naming |
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Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:08:16 +0100 |
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"Noah Slater" <nslater@bytesexual.org> writes:
> On 07/12/2007, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:
>> Does the following help, mini-RMS?
>
> Seriously, WTF is this? mini-RMS? What kind of thing is that to say?
>
> The whole passage you quoted is wrong. The POSIX specifcations lays
> out what comprises an operating system (mainly a kernel, c library,
> shell, user space tools)
Uh, no. The POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface) specification
specifies at several levels what comprises a UNIX-like API. For
example, there are Windows systems with some degree of POSIX
certification. The POSIX specs most certainly don't define what an
operating system _is_.
> of which GNU provides everything apart from the kernel in a GNU/Linux
> operating system.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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