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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!demeter.omen.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 7 Feb 1997 13:28:48 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 22 Distribution: comp Message-ID: <5dg6qg$fkr@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5dacro$r0@josie.abo.fi> <5dd9d7$li1@cynic.portal.ca> <5deu64$8tk@josie.abo.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157119 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2411 In article <5deu64$8tk@josie.abo.fi>, Mats Andtbacka <mandtbac@abo.fi> wrote: >>You'll note that when I refer to `Linux' I am referring to the >>Linux kernel, which is not a complete OS. When I refer to `GNU/Linux,' >>I am referring to a complete OS. > >that would be using your and Stallman's definition of what comprises >an OS. i disagree with it, and will not use it. So in other words, you don't then recommend an `OS' to people, but an `OS with an associated package of utilities.' Or do you recommend that people run Linux without such handy utilities such as init and ls? At any rate, the argument is simply enough resolved. Every time you see me say `OS,' just translate that into `OS with an associated package of utilities.' cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.