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Re: File Systems.



Hugo.van.der.Kooij@caiw.nl wrote:
> 
> The simple technical answer is that Linux is the kernel. Nothing more.
> Nothing less. What the people generally call Linux can be just about
> anything. (Like journalist calling any OS a program because they don't
> understand or expect their audience not to understand it.)
> 

No, that is not true.  Linux in the operating system sense is "a
Unix-like operating system built around the Linux kernel."  There are
plenty of expectations what is "Linux" in addition to being based on the
kernel.

	-hpa


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