Re: [LUG] What IS an operating system ?

[Matt Lee <mattl@xxxxxxx>]

On 22 Jan 2005, at 10:11, Grant Sewell wrote:

> The group writing the tools is called GNU... who appear to be the 
> FSF... who appear to be GNU... confusion!
> The Operating System is GNU... but (commonly) the kernel is Linux... 
> you can't have an OS without a kernel... confusion!
> The tools themselves are called GNU... which is a group... or is it an 
> OS... confusion!

The group writing the GNU operating system are the FSF.
The Operating system is GNU, but you generally use Linux, but you won't 
always have to, so you could call GNU/Linux GNU if you want.

The only confusion is the idea that GNU is *just* a set of tools - it's 
not. It's a whole bunch of things, including tools that make up an 
operating system.

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