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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!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: 11 Feb 1997 12:59:46 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5dqmk2$oj2@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5dncoa$op@josie.abo.fi> <5dphhs$eoi@cynic.portal.ca> <E5G0z9.9Kz@bigbird.telly.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157935 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2474 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 -- 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.