On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
>
> > "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:48:50PM
>-0500:
> > > A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit.
> > > Frankly, there are very few people--very few--that are competent enough
> > > to technically compare Linux to any other operating system. Hell, there
> > > are few enough people that actually understand what defines an operating
> > > system to begin with and that "Linux" *isn't* an operating system.
> >
> > To say it isn't an operating system may be construed as being wrong. It
> > provides the critical component for an operating system, does it not?
>
> So what it still is not an operating system, it is a kernel.
What is an OS ? Sure Linux has a kernel, but that kernel and some
other things "make a computer work". Basicly, isn't that what an OS does ?
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Andrei Postolache, Romania, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In these times computers are happy ... they have Linux ...
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>
> ......Tom "Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] for you are crunchy and good with ketchup."
>
> Unix IS user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are.
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