Re: GNU/Linux Naming

[Brian]

On  7 Dec 2007 at 12:01, David Kastrup wrote:
> Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>> [... crying revisionism ...]
>>
>> Dear GNUtian dak, please visit
>
> Why change the topic?  We were talking about a dedicated Linux site
> which called Linux "a clone of the operating system Unix" and said
> that this operating system clone was created by Linux Torvalds from
> scratch even though the term "Unix" certainly comprises more than just
> a kernel.

But you'd have to agree that user-space utilities like cat and wc are
essentially trivial, in a way that a kernel isn't trivial.