Re: A general history question

2011-11-06 Thread Linux Tyro
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:37 PM, inode0 wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution > I read this.. On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha < quix...@dulcineatech.com> wrote: Richard Stallman and his colleagues at The Freesoftware Foundation > assert that the prop

Re: A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread scott
On 11/05/2011 03:10 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: > Richard Stallman and his colleagues at The Freesoftware Foundation > assert that the proper term is "GNU/Linux", because in reality linux > is just - "just!" - the operating system kernel. > > There's not a whole lot you can do with a kernel

Re: A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread Alan Cox
> the distros, almost all. Well, openSUSE also uses the technique of .rpm > which is again Red Hat Package Manager. So basically i get to know that it > was initially in Linux two sides -- 1) debian 2) rpm (as already discussed) > but just wanted to know that openSUSE also has been derived from Red

Re: A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread Don Quixote de la Mancha
Richard Stallman and his colleagues at The Freesoftware Foundation assert that the proper term is "GNU/Linux", because in reality linux is just - "just!" - the operating system kernel. There's not a whole lot you can do with a kernel all by itself. While the kernel is the first program to run in

Re: A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread inode0
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Linux Tyro wrote: > Hi, > > Excited to see this world of Linux. A general question came in mind > regarding the origin of Linux. > > Well, it (Linux) is basically a kernel -- perhaps same in majority of all > the distros, almost all. Well, openSUSE also uses the te

Re: A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread Linux Tyro
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Linux Tyro wrote: Excited to see this world of Linux. A general question came in mind > regarding the origin of Linux. > > Well, it (Linux) is basically a kernel -- perhaps same in majority of all > the distros, almost all. Well, openSUSE also uses the technique of

A general history question

2011-11-05 Thread Linux Tyro
Hi, Excited to see this world of Linux. A general question came in mind regarding the origin of Linux. Well, it (Linux) is basically a kernel -- perhaps same in majority of all the distros, almost all. Well, openSUSE also uses the technique of .rpm which is again Red Hat Package Manager. So basic