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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 11 Feb 1997 12:59:46 -0800
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In article <E5G0z9.9Kz@bigbird.telly.org>,
Evan Leibovitch <evan@bigbird.telly.org> wrote:

>The terms you ask for already exist.

No, they do not. With typical Linux shortsightedness, you've got
a specific solution for Linux, but not general solution.

You've taken two general terms, `kernel' and `OS,' and erased any
distinction between them. I think if you ask most people, they will
say a kernel and an OS are different. You've no generic term for
what I call an OS. SCO Unix and NetBSD are obviously something more
than operating systems by your definition; what are they?

As long as the rest of the world calls Microsoft Windows an `operating
system,' rather than an `operating system with a set of associated
utilities' or whatever your shorter term is for that, you've lost
this battle.

cjs
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