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Re: GNU/Linux Naming
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David Kastrup |
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Re: GNU/Linux Naming |
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Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:54:52 +0100 |
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"Noah Slater" <nslater@bytesexual.org> writes:
> On 07/12/2007, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Uh no. POSIX does not lay out what it means to be a "type of operating
>> system". It lays out what _interfaces_ must be there for certain
>> degrees of POSIX compliancy. It does not require the embodiment of
>> those interfaces to run under the name "operating system".
>
> I consider that to be a good enough definition of "operating system"
A recipe for apple pie is not a definition of apples.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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