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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