Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 16:58:03 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Message-ID: <3543ADEB.794BDF32@asme.org> References: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.980426224121.22284C-100000@red.csi.cam.ac.uk>
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Windows 95 is not an OS because it still runs on "top" of DOS, M$ doesn't admit, but I would not consider it a technicality. Linux is not an OS because it doesn't include a standarized set of commands and utilities. Technically it's only a kernel. In any case what the end user "see" is not the kernel, but the GNU user land utilities, an of course this vary in every Linux "flavor" you find: Redhat's OS is different from Caldera's. Pedro "kill the penguin" Giffuni ;-) Ben Cohen wrote: > > >In short: stop looking at the Linux kernel as the lifesaver; it's part > >of the problem, and remember Linux is not UNIX and it's not even an OS. > > Why is Linux not an OS? Is it a technicality (like Windows 95)? > > Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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