Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Mar 96 02:05 MET | From | (Erik Corry) | Subject | Re: Linux isn't an operating system |
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Richard Stallman (rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu) wrote: : on NASA TV last week indicate that computers running under the Linux : operating system are being used on STS-75. Linux is powerful 32-bit : multiuser, multitasking operating system similar to Unix in many ways : except cost and licensing.... : : Linux was designed a few short years ago by Linus Torvalds, a graduate... : : This article makes a common mistake: confusing the whole operating : system with the kernel. Linus Torvalds wrote the kernel, Linux. A : whole operating systems consists of Linux and many other programs, : which were written by a great many people.
At least they did better than Reuters, who messed up completely with the following:
> Caldera's system is developed in Linux, a programming language created > by Linus Torvalds in Helsinki in the early 1990s that can be downloaded > for free and which requires further developers to make source codes > based on it available.
The rest of their Wabi-on-Linux story is on http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/960305/compute/stories/sun_1.html and the real press release is somewhere near http://www.caldera.com/
-- Erik Corry ehcorry@inet.uni-c.dk http://inet.uni-c.dk/~ehcorry/
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