Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Mar 1996 00:31:29 -0500 (EST) | From | Gary Anderson <> | Subject | Re: Linux isn't an operating system |
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On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 22:37:28 -0500 > From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu> > To: ganderson@clark.net > Cc: linux-misc@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Linux isn't an operating system > > on NASA TV last week indicate that computers running under the Linux > operating system are being used on STS-75. Linux is powerful 32-bit > multiuser, multitasking operating system similar to Unix in many ways > except cost and licensing.... > > Linux was designed a few short years ago by Linus Torvalds, a graduate... > > This article makes a common mistake: confusing the whole operating > system with the kernel. Linus Torvalds wrote the kernel, Linux. A > whole operating systems consists of Linux and many other programs, > which were written by a great many people. > > There are a number of whole operating systems using the Linux kernel, > Most of them are more or less close variants of the GNU system, so I > recommend the term "Linux-based GNU system" for them. > > I'm going to talk to the author of the article about this distinction. > >
Well, I suppose we can talk semantics till the cows come home. I just thought the rest of the Linux community, as a whole, would find the ariticle interesting. Perhaps a few others felt as I did, and uttered a quiet "YES !!", in a sense of pride at what has been accomplished by literally hundreds, or thousands of us, and Linus in particular. I wasn't terribly concerned about the semantic distinction.
Gary Anderson ganderson@clark.net
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