On 11/21/2015 06:50 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
El 18/11/15 a las 17:39, Ric Moore escribió:On 11/18/2015 02:24 PM, moxalt wrote:I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.Depends who's version of the definition of OS you use: Here's a quote from "The design of the unix operating system", Maurice J. Bach, Prentice/Hall, 1986, page 4: The operating system interacts directly with the hardware, providing common services to programs and insulating them from hardware idiosyncrasies. Viewing the system as a set of layers, the operating system is commonly called the system kernel, or just the kernel, emphasizing its isolation from user programs. Because programs are independent of the underlying hardware, it is easy to move them between UNIX systems running on different hardware if the programs do not make assumptions about the underlying hardware." http://linux.topology.org/lingl.html "Personally, I am against re-defining the English language for political and marketing purposes." There ya go. RicThere is a common false justification for calling the operating system "Linux" instead of "GNU/Linux". Anybody who really thinks that Linux is an operating system because operating system is synonymous with kernel must start talking about "The kernel of {FreeBSD, Windows, OS X, etcetera}" as the operating system as well for otherwise he'd be an hypocrite in applying his own argument inconsistently instead of acknowledging his own mistake in that in the modern meaning of "operating system", Linux is NOT an operating system. The modern word for that meaning of "operating system" is "kernel".
According to you. Not according to "The design of the unix operating system", Maurice >> J. Bach, Prentice/Hall, 1986, page 4:
Now that I have cited a definition of "OS", please cite your reference.Keep in mind that if your definition causes a student to fail a computer literacy exam, then you have caused harm. :/ Ric
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