Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Robert Uhl ruhl
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Kevin Everets <kevin.everets@alcatel.com> writes:
> 
> > But the system is _much_ more than just GNU.  Many have stated
> > this, but the pro-`GNU/Linux' factions ignores it; are y'all being
> > deliberately obtuse?
> 
> But the system _is_ GNU.  GNU is nothing but the same of a system.

A system that, as far as I can tell, does not exist.  No-one makes a
GNU-only distribution that I know of.

To apply the GNU moniker to a system containing components such as
XFree86 and OpenSSH is the height of presumption.

> Consider this scenario: someone designs and builds most of a car, all
> the boring parts and the not-so-boring parts (the chassis, the
> dashboard, the wheels, etc), all except the last piece (the engine).
> Then someone comes along and creates an engine that happens to work
> very well in that system.  They then call the entire car by the name
> of the engine, as the engine was their baby.  And many others start to
> call the car by the engine.  Perhaps fair, perhaps not.

It's more like someone designs and builds many parts of a car,
including the chassis, but doesn't do anything about wheels, engine,
dash-dials, windscreen &c.  Others do that work, except for the
engine.  But until that engine's been made, there is no car.  The
chassis-designers go on and on about this great and wonderful engine
they're going to make some day, but cannot seem to make up their minds
as to whether it should run on petrol or diesel, if it should be a
Wankel or not &c.  Then one day someone else throws together an
engine, and suddenly everyone and his brother can have a car.  In
gratitude for the engineer, everyone names the car-model after him.

Meanwhile the fellows who designed the chassis and seats gripe that
the car should be named after the engineer and themselves.  Those who
made the wheels, the windscreen, the seatbelts, the fittings, the
dash, the dials, the steering, the drive train &c. find this more than
passing odd.

-- 
Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>
The people who once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all
else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two
things--bread and circuses.                             --Juvenal

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