From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths@attbi.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Newbie Lists And more, was; Re: Get Out Of Jail Free!
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:49:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <013e01c201c1$6ac7f380$02263e18@mycomputer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0205221733140.651-100000@frontdoor.g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk>
Also, Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. The operating system are the distributions Debian, Redhat, Caldera, Mandrake, Yellow Dog, etc. Those are the operating sustems which contain the package managers, and various packages for different tasks.
----- Original Message -----
From: Toby Fisher <toby_fisher@bigfoot.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie Lists And more, was; Re: Get Out Of Jail Free!
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> > I just want to make one small comment. My understanding is that unix
> > is a family of operating systems, and that GNU/Linux is a member of
> > that family, just like Sunos is a member of that family. Thus, unix
> > and GNU/Linux are not separate operatingsystems, which you seem to be
> > implying in your post.
>
> Actually, Greg, technically speaking, Linux is not a member o the Unix
> family. Ok, so it's just picking hairs, but it has not fully complied
> with the relevant standards, and although the contraventions are small,
> they do exist so in the strictest sense, Linux is not a unix, or at least,
> wasn't quite recently.
>
> Cheers.
>
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