[thelist] Is this a list?

Jay Blanchard jay.blanchard at THERMON.com
Mon Oct 3 12:26:46 CDT 2005


[snip]
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 07:17 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> Linux *is* an operating system. Here are some definitions...

No, it is not, it is a kernel that needs to boot into an operating
system to be useful. Please read
<http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html>.

[/snip]

I stand (or sit in this case) corrected. I had forgotten about the HURD
kernel. So actually, GNU/Linux is an OS, GNU (sans kernel) is not.


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