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On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:30:20 -0600, Atom Smasher <atom@smasher.org> wrote:

> linux is, in fact, an operating system.
>  debian, red hat, ubuntu, gentoo, etc are distributions of that OS.

It's not really worth getting into this argument, but I'll reiterate that  
no, it's not an OS -- it's a kernel. Without the userland utilities the  
distros provide it's not very usable. Linus and co don't maintain the  
shell or the rc subsystem or anything like that. They only work on the  
kernel and in-tree drivers. We need to be comparing FreeBSD to a full  
blown distro.


Cheers