RE: [LUG] What IS an operating system ?

["Darke, Clive" <Clive.darke@xxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [LUG] What IS an operating system ?

Linus T. would never have produced Linux without gcc.
FSF deserves our respect for the work they do, but not all *free* tools, or those run on Linux, are GNU by any means, e.g. Perl and Python.

We use Linux kernel as a base to run stuff on, but that is not exclusively GNU. 
Many questions on the dclug list concern device drivers, a continual issue for many OS's.  So far as I know GNU do not produce these, and they could be described as part of the kernel/OS (a grey area though).  In the short time I have been observing, the majority of questions on this list are not about FSF/GNU products.

Clive

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