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

[Rob B <rbyrnes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:53 PM 14/07/03, invisible ink sent this up the stick:
> 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.

Couldn't have said it better.

cheers,
rob  (Proudly platform agnostic, running Windows, Debian GNU/Linux and 
FreeBSD ... two operating systems and a distro:)


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