On 01/27/2011 05:01 PM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Ganesan Venkata Subramanian <chickoo.i...@gmail.com <mailto:chickoo.i...@gmail.com>> wrote:Hi All I think i should make a statement here. What makes an operating system. The kernel as well as its utilities. Correct me if i am wrong. while saying linux we are talking of only the kernel. Then where is the mention of the utilities which make up the os. It is like mentioning the car engine which represents only a part of the car.Yes, everyone should know about GNU and Linux and their relation. If a technical document lacks this relation then its a matter of concern. Using Linux as a general term in our day to day life is perfectly ok and practical.
Sorry, nor you nor I can force it down the user's throat. Just like I am not an automobile engineer, so I don't care about which company engine it has or which company types they assemble with.
Apply the similar analogy here. People who work in automobile sector just don't care what is beneath. Remember 90%(or even more) of the crowd using computers just wants to get their work done. They don't care about the internals. If we cannot abstract the features, then it means we have failed. I think the automobile industry has succeeded better in abstraction and encapsulation than software industry.
Lastly, everyone working on GNU tools mostly knows they come from GNU. I know autotools come from GNU, so does Emacs and mailman etc. If someone using it for 2 years doesn't know that they are GNU tools, then how much expectation you have that they might listen to you?
-- Manish
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