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to: Gregg N
from: Rich
date: 2004-03-03 10:53:30
subject: Re: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-051.html

From: "Rich" 

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   Now stop that propaganda right now!  Adam must be able to redefine =
"linux" as narrowly or as broadly as necessary to suite whatever
claim = he is trying to make at the time.

Rich

  "Gregg N"  wrote in message =
news:Xns94A18A08B9540nemesuremindspringco{at}216.144.1.254...
  Adam Flinton  wrote in
  news:7093b6.633f3d{at}harborwebs.com:=20

  > Linux is a kernel.
  >=20

  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=20
  by Andrew Tanenbaum's operating system called MINIX.

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

  Gregg
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