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Article #4220Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 06:49
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 06:49
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devnull@iprimus.c0m.au wrote: > The kernel's essentially the OS. Everything else thrown in is what they call an OE > (operating environment). Someone else raised that term (I don't know -- maybe it was you), but no one has offered a credible authority as to its meaning. And, importantly, no one has offered a credible authority that would define OS as to necessarily exclude essential non-kernel components such as boot loaders, core libraries, file management, session management, etc.
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