On 01/27/2011 12:09 PM, Ganesan Venkata Subramanian 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.
My phone has a ARM processor, the screen made by some other
manufacturer, battery by Sony(probably), casing from some other company
but at the end of the day I call it an HTC phone. That is how I call it
even though it runs a ton of GNU tools below and has Linux as the
kernel. I don't call it Linux/GNU/Dalvik/HTC
I do not protest that you should not call this GNU/Linux, what I am
saying is that this discussion has been since time immemorial and hasn't
yield any result till date. It is just a topic on which you keep on
discussing just like we are doing right now.
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Manish
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