1 Nov
2004
1 Nov
'04
5:33 p.m.
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 15:15, lau(a)lupulin.net wrote:
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:04:36PM -0600, Jan Depner
wrote:
Nope. A startup script is just a startup script. Grub is not part of
the operating system either. The OS is, by definition, the kernel. An
interesting thing to consider is RTLinux. Linux is *not* the OS in
RTLinux. The RT microkernel is the OS. Linux is merely the idle
process. I guess you could say it's part of the OS since it is in the
inner loop so to speak. And, speaking of which, has anyone taken a look
at Monta Vista's Open Source Real-Time Linux Project in relation to
audio? It's using a lot of Ingo's patches.
Jan
No disrespect intended to Richard Stallman and
the GNU crowd. The OS
wouldn't exist without those tools but the tools are not part of the
OS. They are merely applications that are bundled in with the
distribution.
Given the more widely accepted definition of an operating system I think
it is perfectly acceptable to speak of Linux as a standard.
This is a gray area, but I think that you cannot just say that the gnu
tools are _not_ a part of the operating system.
Would you say that the startup scripts are _not_ a part of the OS ?
All the startup scripts that I've seen rely are parts of gnu coreutils.
I think that qualifies as being _part_ of the OS.