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Article #4298Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Tim Haynes
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:19
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:19
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ruhl@4dv.net (Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net>) writes: > Tim Haynes <usenet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk> writes: >> >> > The _point_ is that it's possible, and therefor that the GNU tools >> > are not required for a usable system. It might not be what either >> > of us would consider particularly useful, but it's possible. >> >> What crap. The `_point_', as you call it, is that what you actually >> have, in reality, on the CD in front of you, has GNU bits & pieces >> from a fundamental level up (glibc, fileutils, textutils,...), >> therefore it's fair enough to call it GNU/Linux. > > It was stated that a Linux system is impossible without the GNU > utilities. Having shown that this is false, you change the tack, arguing > that all actual usable Linux systems are distributed with GNU utilities. > Well, duh. Actually, I change nothing. Look again at who you're following up to, and look in the mirror before trying to sound like a patronising arse.. > All actual usable Linux systems are also distributed with a plethora of > _other_ utilities. So, I ask again (expecting no answer), should it be > called GNU/BSD/MIT/AOL/IBMLinux? If not, why not? Because the most important thing(s) are by GNU - I'd say that the choice of libc alone was fundamental enough. > Sheesh, some folks really must have small, sad lives to care about this > sort of thing. You speak for yourself. ~Tim -- Morning dawning / |piglet@stirfried.vegetable.org.uk With life abounding |http://spodzone.org.uk/
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