Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
> >> But they should call it Linux if they really base it on Linux
> > 
> >   I don't think using the linux kernel requires for the OS to have the
> > word "linux" in its name.

> As far as I can tell, if you want to be technical about it, "Linux" is 
> the tiny bit of code that runs tasks, handles interrupts, manages memory 
> and has a few device drivers.

  In other words, the kernel.

> When you install "Linux", 90% of the stuff 
> you're installing isn't actually "Linux" at all; it's mostly the GNU 
> toolchain, GNOME or KDE, Firefox and half a million other 3rd party items.

  You don't install "Linux". You install, for example, OpenSUSE, or Ubuntu.
or Debian, or...

  Those are the kernel + gnu tools + extra distro-specific stuff, which
in conjunction form the OS.

> Whatever happened to HURD?

  Linux ate it.

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                                                          - Warp

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