Re: about hurd ?

[Carl Fink <carlf@fink.to>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 02:19:49PM -0500, Kent West wrote:

> Linux is strictly the kernel, the core, of the operating system that you 
> know as Debian GNU/Linux (or Redhat, or SuSE, or Slackware, etc). 
> Everything else, the "ls" command, the "grep" command, the X11 Windowing 
> System, etc, are GNU utilities that sit on top of the Linux kernel. The 
> Linux kernel plus these GNU programs make up a distribution of "Linux".
 
Almost.  The successors to the X Windowing System used with Linux, XFree86
and X.ORG, are not GNU programs -- that is, not produced by Project GNU.  
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Carl Fink                                         carl@fink.to
If you attempt to fix something that isn't broken, it will be.
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