> From: "Geo." 
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:403927ec$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > Are you trying to prove my point? The name "Linux"
is being used to
> describe
>> > Operating systems on things from a watch up to a supercomputer and you
> want
>> > to convince me Linux is a single operating system?
>> >
>> 
>> The core certainly is. Choose your kernel & compile it along with the
>> requisite drivers et voila.
> What "core"? is that some 4096 byte chunk of message passing
code they use
> in an alarmclock?
> Geo.

The core differs from machine to machine dependant upon the hardware. I
would say the minimum to get the machine into life. i.e.
kernel+drivers+filesystem+some sort of shell.

Adam

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