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echo: nthelp
to: Adam Flinton
from: Gregg N
date: 2004-03-03 13:31:20
subject: Re: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-051.html

From: Gregg N 

Adam Flinton  wrote in
news:7093b6.633f3d{at}harborwebs.com:

> Linux is a kernel.
>

No, the Linux kernel is a kernel. Linux is a class of operating system
based on this kernel. This is the common usage of the name. It was inspired
by Andrew Tanenbaum's operating system called MINIX.

Read the description at the top of http://www.linux.org/.

Gregg

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