On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 07:31:04 pm Yavor Doganov wrote: > В Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:00:39 +1000, Steven D'Aprano написа: > > Linux is an operating system, not a mail client. > > No, Linux is a kernel -- nothing more, nothing less. See > http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html.
The GNU people have their opinion. It's not one shared by many others. Possibly not shared by *any* others. That's why people talk about "the Linux kernel" as opposed to "the Linux operating system", e.g. the first paragraph from Wikipedia's article on Linux states: "Linux ... is a Unix-like computer operating system family which uses the Linux kernel." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux Similarly there's a Mach kernel (note the H), upon which the Mac (note the lack of H) OS X operating system runs; a Windows NT kernel upon which the Windows NT, XP and other operating systems run; and so forth. > > If you're going to pretend to be all superior and wise, shame on > > you for not knowing the difference. > > I was tempted to say "likewise". Good thing you didn't then. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
