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Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Rev. Don Kool
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 12:48
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Sami Sihvonen wrote:
> In article <afddm8$94k$1@tilde.itg.ti.com>,
> "Kermit Tensmeyer" <nspam.x0kermit@ti.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>It is GNU/Linux, not Linux... See http://www.gnu.org/ for details.
>>
>>Linux is the OS. gnu - tools provide some of the very good
>>software that also runs on Linux  and Unix and ...
> 
> 
> Linux is only kernel. About 3% of full operating system. And you
> simply can't do anything with that kernel unless you add something
> to it. Those things people call "Linux" usually are GNU/Linux
> with a lot of GNU Project material. 
> 
> You should give credits where they belong, even if you hate them. 
> And why you hate Free Software Foundation? Have they not helped
> your everyday hacking?

	Well they've done nothing for UNIX systems and the administration of UNIX 
systems is the topic of "comp.unix.admin".  Take your off-topic advocacy 
to another newsgroup where it has a chance of being on topic instead of 
spamming it here where it is definitely off-topic.

	Happy to have cleared things up for you,
			Don



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