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Anonymous commented at 2011-08-21 00:03:11 » #853903
Id just like to interject for a moment. What you'e referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as Ive 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 machines 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.
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Id just like to interject for a moment. What you'e referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as Ive 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 machines 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.
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Anonymous commented at 2012-11-15 04:39:41 » #1203841
Stop commenting this same thing on every Linux-tan image. Here's my response again:
WELL HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS GIRL ISN'T JUST THE KERNEL!? Stop making assumptions that we have a full operating system here, she's probably just one of the "kernel-tans".
Actually I just realized something. Her name is "Linux-tan", and she's wearing things like Gnome, KDE, and has the GNU head thingy. So calling her GNU/Linux would be like calling a person named Bob something like Clothes/Bob. SHE, her BODY is Linux, so calling HER GNU/Linux would be inaccurate.
Her naked body is pure kernel, but only with her clothes on is a full OS.
btw I'm typing this on Kubuntu.
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Stop commenting this same thing on every Linux-tan image. Here's my response again:
WELL HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS GIRL ISN'T JUST THE KERNEL!? Stop making assumptions that we have a full operating system here, she's probably just one of the "kernel-tans".
Actually I just realized something. Her name is "Linux-tan", and she's wearing things like Gnome, KDE, and has the GNU head thingy. So calling her GNU/Linux would be like calling a person named Bob something like Clothes/Bob. SHE, her BODY is Linux, so calling HER GNU/Linux would be inaccurate.
Her naked body is pure kernel, but only with her clothes on is a full OS.
btw I'm typing this on Kubuntu.
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