From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 26 15:08:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA25743 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 15:02:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25263 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:58:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from giffuni.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.50]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with SMTP id AAA10258; Sun, 26 Apr 1998 17:01:50 +0500 Message-ID: <3543ADEB.794BDF32@asme.org> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 16:58:03 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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