linux-kernel - Re: It's not GNU/Linux

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0610041649130.26137@chaos.analogic.com>
Date:	Wed, 4 Oct 2006 16:53:07 -0400
From:	"linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@...logic.com>
To:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	"Neil Brown" <neilb@...e.de>, "Marc Perkel" <marc@...kel.com>,
	"Ivan Dimitrov" <madcat@...orum.net>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: It's not GNU/Linux - it's jusy LINUX

On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>
>> "Linux" is an operating system kernel.  By itself it is pretty
>> useless.
>
> I have to object.
>
> Linux (kernel) plus a static standalone userspace binary -- 'enough' for
> embedded applications. It does not need GNU in it (with the exception
> of the kernel's license, GPL, of course).
>

Actually, it needs no libraries at all. See attached. It doesn't
even need the 'C' language to perform useful work although I'm sure
you would not want to write a database application in assembly
language. Also, although I used the GNU assembler and Linker, there
are other tools that would work just as well.

>> A thing which is Linux plus lots of libraries and utilities and maybe
>> a windowing system and a "desktop" is a lot more than "Linux".
>
> 	-`J'
> --

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.16.24 on an i686 machine (5592.72 BogoMips).
New book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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