Re: [chat] Re: [SLUG] Take 1.5 hrs to learn why linux sucks. ;)

[invisible ink <jdub@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob B:

> My point was that Windows is an "Operating System", Linux is a kernel.  If
> MS wanted to count security problems in "Linux", then bind, bash, etc are
> not parts of Linux, they go together with the kernel to make up a
> distribution.

The trouble is, because everyone has diluted the "Linux" name, by calling
the entire Linux/distribution/FOSS stack "Linux", you're just going to have
to live with the consequences.

Linux the Kernel, GNU/Linux the Platform, <insert-here> the Distribution.

But Real People don't care about Platform or Distribution.

- ii

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