[Mageia-discuss] Linux is a KERNEL not an OS

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Thu Mar 3 21:47:00 CET 2011


Op donderdag 03 maart 2011 14:10:27 schreef Lawrence A Fossi:
> Taken from the front page of the openSuSe website:
> openSUSE is a free and Linux-based operating system for your PC, Laptop or
> Server. You can surf the web, manage your e-mails and photos, do office
> work, play videos or music and have a lot of fun!
> No mention of GNU anywhere.
> 
> Honestly I agree that GNU should be acknowledged but trying to change the
> meaning on Linux in the here and now to what is was supposed to be 18
> years ago is not a losing battle it's one that has already been lost!

we should not forget that GNU had also tried to make a kernel of itself... 
which was a total failure.


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