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Article #4346Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Rev. Don Kool
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:37
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 21:37
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Steve Mading wrote: > In comp.unix.questions Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net> <ruhl@4dv.net> wrote: > : Jeffrey Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> writes: > :> > :> Actually, Linux is a kernel, not an OS. > > : A kernel _is_ an OS. The OS + userland utilities might accurately be > : called an operating environment, but as every CS student knows, an > : operating system is not the behemoth of applications and utilities put > : out by every OS vendor, but rather the relatively small bit which > : manages limited resources and interfaces with the hardware. > > What would you call these processes: Off topic on "comp.unix.admin". Hope this helps, Don -- *********************** You a bounty hunter? * Rev. Don McDonald * Man's gotta earn a living. * Baltimore, MD * Dying ain't much of a living, boy. *********************** "Outlaw Josey Wales"
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