Do you know what the BIOS actually does? Regards, Les H On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 02:03 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jul 24, 2008, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Marko Vojinovic: > >>> But tell me, what is in principle The Single Most Important element > >>> of the car? There is only one answer --- the engine. > > > Alexandre Oliva: > >> So, what remains to be justified is why you decided Linux is the > >> engine rather than say one of the tires. > > > You can't really expect anyone to give you any credibility if you want > > to argue that the kernel, the core of the system, is not the engine. > > By the very same argument, the most "important" piece of software in a > computer running a GNU/Linux distro would be the BIOS. > > I don't think this reasoning holds much water. > > -- > Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ > Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} > FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ > Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
