[ubuntu-in] Fwd: Correction in mentioning linux (Please mention it as gnu/linux)

[Manish Sinha]

On 01/27/2011 12:09 PM, Ganesan Venkata Subramanian wrote:
> Hi All
> I think i should make a statement here. What makes an operating 
> system. The kernel as well as its utilities. Correct me if i am wrong. 
> while saying linux we are talking of only the kernel. Then where is 
> the mention of the utilities which make up the os. It is like 
> mentioning the car engine which represents only a part of the car.

My phone has a ARM processor, the screen made by some other 
manufacturer, battery by Sony(probably), casing from some other company 
but at the end of the day I call it an HTC phone. That is how I call it 
even though it runs a ton of GNU tools below and has Linux as the 
kernel. I don't call it Linux/GNU/Dalvik/HTC

I do not protest that you should not call this GNU/Linux, what I am 
saying is that this discussion has been since time immemorial and hasn't 
yield any result till date. It is just a topic on which you keep on 
discussing just like we are doing right now.

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Manish