Re: that old GNU/Linux argument

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 03:18 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Jul 15, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Gordon Messmer wrote:
What we *are* advocating is that the GNU/Linux operating system be
referred to as GNU/Linux because GNU is the name of the project
whose goal is to provide a complete Free Software operating system.

But that's a small minority of the code in the distribution.

Apparently you're taking 3 different concepts as synonymous: kernel,
operating system and distribution.

A distribution is an operating system plus a bunch of applications
that run on it. Some examples of distributions are Fedora, Ubuntu,
the Debian GNU/Linux main repository, BLAG, gNewSense, UTUTO-XS,
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD.

An operating system is a kernel plus a bunch of userland libraries and
programs that users and other applications generally rely on. Some
examples of operating systems are GNU, BSD, UNIX, MS-Windows, VMS,
DOS, OS/2, etc.

A kernel is the part of an operating system responsible for allocating
machine resources. Some examples of kernels are Linux, Hurd,
KERNEL32.DLL, and the AFAIK nameless kernels of other operating
systems and variants there of mentioned above.

Has HURD actually become a working kernel?? Ric

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