1 Nov
2004
1 Nov
'04
4:03 p.m.
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:04:36PM -0600, Jan Depner wrote:
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.
--
paul \ /
wisehart >/
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