On 07/29/2012 10:31 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
GNU is a software collection project founded by Richard Stallman that provides open source versions of a who lot of programs that work with the Linux (and other) kernel environment. The GNU folks, not having a successfully popular kernel component, want to insist on being acknowledged for their contributions by having folks refer to the whole combination as GNU/Linux.
That's a load of hooey. GNU the project provides a collection of Free Software, but GNU the operating system existed before Linux. The goal was an implementation of the POSIX operating system specification.
That's where we're at. GNU/Linux is a POSIX operating system. Linux is an operating system that is a subset of POSIX. Android, TiVo, and numerous routers are common examples of Linux systems.
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