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From: "Adi Stav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> 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.
A friend of mine, reading this discussion, suggested that you can treat
linux as you do species of animals in the "Real World"(tm) - as long as they
can interbread, they are of the same specie. I think it means that as long
as you can take the kernel out of one distro, dump it in another and expect
it to work (relativly painlessly) then it's the same OS.
Oded
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by
Jackasses.
-- H. L. Mencken
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