youlys...@riseup.net wrote: > Hey all! > > I'm new to LFS, and I started skimming though the book, and I found this. > > >> Linux Kernel >> >> This package is the Operating System. It is the Linux in the GNU/Linux >> environment. >> >> - > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/prologue/package-choices.html > > To my understanding, a Operating System is a series of packages, (more > than one) that is used in unison to make a "feature-full" system. Isn't > Linux just the part of the system that allocates memory to applications, > and some other low-level tasks? > > What's the rational behind this?
You have to understand what the definition of an operating system is. Some people confuse the OS and the system. The OS is the kernel that controls what programs are run, memory allocation, hardware input and output, etc. The kernel alone would not be very useful without supporting systems like bash. You can run the Linux kernel with just bash for IO, but even that wouldn't be very useful without utility programs like coreutils, major libraries like glibc, etc. Take a look at the Wikipedia entry for Operating System. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
