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Linux is not an Operating System
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| Last week Google announced their intention to release an operating system
| based on Linux. The reaction of some people on reddit was: "No, another
| neutered, watered-down, crapitized "linux". Linux will once again be viewed
| as a sub par, 'specialized' OS." Well, this is not possible because Linux is
| not really an operating system, it is a kernel. And it is actually very
| successful as a specialized operating system's kernel. Let me explain.
|
| [...]
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| ChromeOS will use Linux for what it is the best: be the kernel of an
| operating system customized and optimized to a specific function. For
| ChromeOS it means being the best possible Netbook operating system.
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http://www.tech-no-media.com/2009/07/linux-is-not-operating-system.html
Recent:
GNU or Linux?
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| The GNU/Linux name is possibly the most controversial and most misunderstood
| issue surrounding Linux. David Chisnall looks at the reasoning for the name
| and asks whether it's justified.
|
| No other system has experienced so much controversy over its name. A great
| many flame wars have erupted over the Free Software Foundation's suggestion
| that distributions such as Ubuntu and Fedora should be called GNU/Linux,
| rather than Linux. Are they just trying to take credit for other peoples'
| work, or is their argument valid?
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http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1339466
Linux is not an OS
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| One way that it could be claimed that Linux is not an operating system is by
| asserting that what we call "Linux" is in fact a name of the kernel, a core
| of the operating system, rather than an OS as a whole. Such assertions would
| usually come from the Free Software supporters who would quickly point out
| how the proper way to call this "OS" is as "GNU/Linux" because it is only
| after combining the Linux as a kernel with GNU as tools that the operating
| system actually is capable of operating usefully.
|
| [...]
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| I have no faith at all in the Linux unification cause as much as I don't have
| faith in command economies such as those in the soviet union. They never
| work.
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| The sooner we stop dreaming about it probably the better. Instead of
| endlessly pushing for the impossible, each distribution should realize that
| they are a project of providing a unique operating system, not merely some
| sort of a "subset" of a larger OS, with all of the implied responsibilities
| and false obligations that come from that. They should focus on providing
| their own particular operating system experience, NOT the "Linux experience".
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http://www.nuxified.org/article/linux_not_os
Related:
LAMP Development - Backbone Of The World Wide Web
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| The LAMP development system is something that has always powered
| the World Wide Web. Combining the powers of Linux with the other
| features gives web designers the ability to create versatile
| websites. This system will continue to be powerful tools for
| web designers as long as the changes of users are noted
| and implemented.
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http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20070129LAMPDevelopmentBackboneoftheWorldWideWeb.html
http://tinyurl.com/ysxc52
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