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Article #4221Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Sami Sihvonen
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:01
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:01
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In article <agfskd$pa9$5@news.doit.wisc.edu>, Steve Mading <madings@baladi.bmrb.wisc.edu> wrote: > Do you call a metal car "a metal"? So why call a set of > software containing a lot of GNU a "GNU"? That piece of Linux Kernel is only the Engine in this car some people wrongly call as "Linux". You won't call a car like Seat Toledo that uses Volksvagen-labeled engines as Volksvagen, you call it Seat Toledo. Bigger things are more important, with GNU/Linux it is all those stuff made by GNU Project that make it work.
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