Gordon Messmer wrote:
>
Well, the kernel's purpose is to load other, more sophisticated
applications. Again, there's no magic in the Linux kernel. It's just a
program, like all of the others.
I'd call fork() and exec() somewhat magic in this context, seeing as how
no unix program but init could run without them. All those gnu-ish
programs with the exception of grub and memtest86++ would still be
waiting around for the hurd to start them if it weren't for linux.
I agree that grub is as essential as the Linux kernel according to my
measuring stick (that is why I mentioned it in the first place), but
it is eliminated from the contest on other grounds. And I hope we all
agree that giving the name to a distro based on the bootloader is
plain silly.
No more than naming an operating system after its kernel. I'm not aware
of any other operating system which is referred to by a name which is
clearly the name of its kernel and nothing else.
Unix/opensolaris/freebsd/openbsd??? What other operating system
combines its name with a political movement?
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