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Article #4261Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Steve Mading
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:08
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In comp.unix.questions Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com> wrote: : Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> writes: :> If it was supposed to be a willing partnership, then we wouldn't see :> the _demands_ at <http://www.fsf.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html> : What part of: : We use Linux-based GNU systems today for most of our work, and we : hope you use them too. But please don't confuse the public by using : the name ``Linux'' ambiguously. Linux is the kernel, one of the : essential major components of the system. The system as a whole is : more or less the GNU system, with Linux added. When you're talking : about this combination, please call it ``GNU/Linux''. : is demanding? It all seems like a request (with a "please" even!) to : me. For one thing it assumes falsely that there is some sort of "GNU system" for which the Linux kernel was just an added afterthought, some optional piece you could do without and still have the "GNU system", which of course it is not since at the time the HURD was not there yet. The linux kernel was not added to a functioning GNU system. The GNU tools were added to a functioning linux kernel.
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From: Steve Mading <madings@baladi.bmrb.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:08:55 +0000 (UTC)
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