[NTLUG:Discuss] Newsforge article about Suits and Linux

[Steve Baker]

Rick Cook wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 21 February 2001 22:31, you wrote:
> > I did the GNU/Linux myself!  RMS would be proud!
> > I do agree with RMS in that "outsiders" are somewhat unaware
> > of the dependency on GNU software for Linux.
> 
> I use "Debian GNU/Linux" at work and at home myself...
> 
> I also use GNU stuff on other OSs like Solaris and IRIX (for longer than I
> have been using Linux). I usually have the gcc suite, emacs, fileutils,
> binutils, bash, diffutils, a2ps, gnuplot, etc. available on all the ?nix
> platforms I use. That doesn't make them GNU/Solaris or GNU/IRIX

The argument goes that without all that GNU stuff, Solaris and IRIX would
still be fairly complete OS's.  They have shells, compilers, and all the
little tools like ls/cp/tar/compress/ln/...

The deal with Linux is that if you SUBTRACT all the GNU stuff, you don't have
an operating system - just a kernel.

People will *STILL* call it "Linux" though.  Nothing is going to stop that.

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