On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 03:18 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jul 15, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Gordon Messmer wrote: > >> What we *are* advocating is that the GNU/Linux operating system be > >> referred to as GNU/Linux because GNU is the name of the project > >> whose goal is to provide a complete Free Software operating system. > > > But that's a small minority of the code in the distribution. > > Apparently you're taking 3 different concepts as synonymous: kernel, > operating system and distribution. > > A distribution is an operating system plus a bunch of applications > that run on it. Some examples of distributions are Fedora, Ubuntu, > the Debian GNU/Linux main repository, BLAG, gNewSense, UTUTO-XS, > FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD. > > An operating system is a kernel plus a bunch of userland libraries and > programs that users and other applications generally rely on. Some > examples of operating systems are GNU, BSD, UNIX, MS-Windows, VMS, > DOS, OS/2, etc. > > A kernel is the part of an operating system responsible for allocating > machine resources. Some examples of kernels are Linux, Hurd, > KERNEL32.DLL, and the AFAIK nameless kernels of other operating > systems and variants there of mentioned above. Has HURD actually become a working kernel?? Ric -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar https://oar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ----------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
