> 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.
This seems like a very confusing lexicon... Why would a system be any different than a operating system. And why is it called a kernel instead of an OS in the title? Are all Kernels operating systems, or just monolithic kernels like Linux? Like is Hurd a OS? Also why has GNU been calling themselves an (incomplete) OS, 9 years before the first release of Linux? 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. Bash is a "3rd party" GNU package, is it not? Can you use Linux on hardware 100% by itself? (I don't believe that's the only thing that warrants calling something an OS, or you'd be apt to call GRUB one.) > Take a look at the Wikipedia entry for Operating System. Will do. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
