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Subject: Re: Free yourself from the Borg

Author: Kunnar Klauks

Date: 03:43:14 02/13/03

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On February 12, 2003 at 16:30:55, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On February 12, 2003 at 16:04:27, Martin Andersen wrote:
>
>>Not change OS, install a new Linux kernel. Redhat has made 2 updates to
>>the kernel in the last couple of months. If you want to use the kernel after
>>install, you
>>need to reboot.
>
>The kernel _IS_ the OS. Change that, and you're changing the OS, and obviously
>to use a new/different OS, you have to reboot. RedHat is not the OS that you
>use. Linux is the OS that you use. RedHat is just one of many distrobutions of
>linux. Linux is the OS. What makes linux different from windows or bsd is it's
>kernel, not the GUIs or the commonly used programs like grep, sed, awk, etc.

Wrong.
Kernel only _is not_ OS. Linux is just a kernel, not OS. Red Hat 8.0 for example
_is_ OS :)
You may call GNU/Linux also OS ( linux kernel + glibc + gcc + many other
thingies ).

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html



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