Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is Linux ?

--- Satya satyap@satya.virtualave.net wrote:

GNOME, KDE, Pine, sendmail, gcc, ls, etc. are not Linux. They're GNU (or whoever) tools which happen to work with Linux.

Don't you think that it is easier to say that what you use is the GNU operating system, where Linux just happens to be the kernel? I don't think there are many other OS's that use Linux as the kernel. Heck, once HURD is properly introduced, there will be people who will have a GNU system but no Linux at all!

SameerDS.

===== -- MTech Student Reconfigurable Computing Lab KReSIT, IIT-Bombay

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