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i've always liked linux but it always hates what ever hardware I gots...right now I'm monkeying with Ubunto...it likes most of my hardware save my netcard...the most important part! Well I've thought about redhat and Kde but are they good with hardware? I really should learn more about em!
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
very good point... i didn't find that out till i did a paper on RMS a few years later. I read about the whole naming controversy.
Anyway i would like to thank you for taking the time to correct me on that and posting a nice mature comment.
I normally call it be linux, because while not 100% right that is what everyone knows it as, Just like computer cracker are known by most as hackers although a true hacker is an adapt programmer. But i do fully agree GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux are much more accurate.
we should talk more about linux sometime if you are up to it.
and now because i'm feeling a bit like it:
May the source be with you.
Anyway i would like to thank you for taking the time to correct me on that and posting a nice mature comment.
I normally call it be linux, because while not 100% right that is what everyone knows it as, Just like computer cracker are known by most as hackers although a true hacker is an adapt programmer. But i do fully agree GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux are much more accurate.
we should talk more about linux sometime if you are up to it.
and now because i'm feeling a bit like it:
May the source be with you.
wow... i consider that a real complement, coming from the all might root, master of the system, installer of the software, seer of all files, the person how keeps me from screwing my computer up so bad it catches on fire and the being who when i had a problem said this great word of wisdom:
"RTFM!!!"
thank you, root[at]furaffinity.net
^_^
"RTFM!!!"
thank you, root[at]furaffinity.net
^_^
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