On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 00:25 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Linux IS NOT a GNU operating system. Linux is Linus Pet Project, and thats all.
Linux _is_ a GNU system. I'm not just saying that like Stallman to get more recognition for GNU. It _is_ a GNU platform, very different than legacy BSD or AT&T System V bases. It's _very_important_ to know this.
Although many "GNU Compatible Systems" use the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), at the heart of _any_ GNU system are the GNU C Libraries (GLibC). That's really a _major_, _technical_ detail!
And then there are the standard utilities and other components that replace the legacy BSD and AT&T ones. Once again, hallmarks of a GNU system, quite different than legacy BSD and AT&T.
Linux is not even an operating system, it is just a Kernel
Combined with the GNU system. Not legacy BSD or AT&T code, but GNU code. This is a very, very, _very_ important technical detail.
and, again, it is not a GNU Kernel. HURD is a GNU kernel.
Never said it was the GNU HURD Microkernel. But Linux is still a GNU system, designed by Linus to be a GNU system. This is _technical_ fact, not some Stallman marketing consideration.
A Linux distribution (exception being Debian) is not more a GNU operating system than a X11/BSD/Name-Your-License Operating system.
My God, so you _are_ about "brand name" and not "technical accuracy." You are so focused on marketing and not reality.
What makes Debian's Linux distribution more of a GNU system than the others? The branding "Debian GNU/Linux"?
Dude, this is technical fact. One of the things I have worked with engineers on in the defense industry is support, building, cross compilers, tools, etc... for countless platforms. It's a technical fact from a developer/integrator standpoint that Linux is a GNU system.
With respect to GNU, there are 3 types of UNIX platforms: - GNU Systems (HURD, Linux) - GNU Compatible Systems (BSD, SunOS/Solaris, most newer BSD variants) - Non-GNU Compatible Systems (several UNIX flavors)
GNU grew up on SunOS/Solaris, so SunOS/Solaris is a GNU Compatible System. Modern 4.4BSDLite-based systems also tend to be GNU Compatible Systems.
I have developed on other, GNU Compatible Systems, VxWorks being a major one. It is largely BSD-based, although designed more for real-time (long story), but is also GNU Compatible.
Linux _is_ a GNU System, because it was built from the "ground up" on clean-room GNU tools, libraries, etc..., unlike BSD or SunOS. And getting back to my _original_point_, that's why Linux has been influenced by SunOS/Solaris.
Can you elaborate, please.
I did before in a previous message.
In Solaris, 2 is multiuser, 3 is X. Many Linux distros are similar.
In anything RHL/FC-based, 2 is multiuser no NFS, 3 is multiuser, 5 is X. This is also the LSB recommendation.