Anonymous commented at 2010-05-12 00:40:07 » #299588

interesting but i only got abawt half of it be for it confused me

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Anonymous commented at 2011-01-24 17:18:21 » #594165

Christ, at least hint at the billions of Linux distros out there... this pictures makes it seem as though there was this one thing called "Linux" and that's it.

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Anonymous commented at 2013-01-03 12:49:33 » #1238134

Nobody ever remembers that most servers run on Unix distros anyway.

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Anonymous commented at 2013-06-03 23:10:12 » #1333548

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring 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.

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