Adi Stav wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:46:53PM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: > > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > > With the current amount of differences between various linux distros, > > > calling each of them "operting system" is more correct. > > > > I wouldn't join your terminology. > > IMO, > > * Linux is the Operating system brand, > > * RedHat,Debian are distributions, meaning a typical, not identical to other, > > type of Linux. They differ in numerous minor/less minor ways. Each dirto' is > > like a special flavour of Linux. > > > > I wouldn't call each distro a different OS. They are all able to run the same > > binaries (true they are packaged differently, but this is just the *package*, > > not the content), and they simply share much more than they differ, if you look > > at the whole computers OS world, not only at the Linux world. > > But Linux is not a brand. Most of the Linux-based distributions > include the Linux kernel as it is, or with relatively negligible > changes. Linus has neither the power nor the desire to influence > "userland" applications. It is Red Hat, Debian etc who brand the > complete systems. So I would not say Linux is a single operating > system, but a family of operating systems, because there's no OS you > can point at and say "this is the original Linux", unlike Unix or BSD. > Gee, I got more than this reply that had sense in it. This thread is anyway more theoretical (definitions, terminology, etc...), and less practical. I'll quite here. Boaz. -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign x Against HTML Mail / \ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
