On 12/29/06, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:
On 29-Dec-06, at 11:02 AM, Vihan Pandey wrote:
ok - GCC, glibc, bash, binutils, coreutils. That is the GNU operating system.
i don't think that would be completely right. GNU is not a production ready operating system(yet). Only with a kernel like Linux, xBSD, etc... can you call it an operating system. Though it is said that when HURD is production ready, that entity can be called the GNU operating system.
then what happens to the slogan 'linux is the kernel and GNU is the operating system'?
Linux is *a* kernel, in the sense that linux is one of GNU's kernels. Get any free kernel and combine with the GNU system, you get a free *nix operating system.
Nagarjuna