[Mageia-discuss] Linux is a KERNEL not an OS

Thu Mar 24 23:40:34 CET 2011

Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+>
+> On 3 March 2011 01:50, Michael Scherer<misc at zarb.org>  wrote:
+...
+>>
+>> The gnu project provided lots of software, some quite unavoidable like a
+>> compiler, a standard library, or stuff like screen, gettext and slightly
+>> low level tools ( binutils, coreutils, etc ).
+>
+> Yes but on the other hand:
+> - libc was forked, then merged back in glibc (and is now mainly
+> maintained by RH).
+>    (And there's eglibc fork too)
+> -  gcc/binutils have concurrents: clang, llvm, ... (not yet at the
+> same level but still...)
+>     Same story: egcs fork, then "merged" back
+>
+> whereas it's trut it was important what stallman and the fsf did, by
+> now, most important
+> pieces of the OS are no more provided by the GNU project itself:
+> - the kernel,
+> - several shells,
+> - all the graphical stack,
+> - most server softwares, ...
+> - Even at the lowest leve: udev, hal, ...
+>
+> GNU project was important, but it's not the biggest part of a Linux distro.
+> Else shouldn't we be named "GNU/KDE/GNOME/FreeDesktop/.../ Mageia Linux"?
+
+and don't forget Posix :)
+
+-- 
+André
+