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Re: What OS is used by Richard Stallman


From: Tomas Nordin
Subject: Re: What OS is used by Richard Stallman
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:37:36 +0200

microsoft gaofei <wangziheng@outlook.com> writes:

>>I [always?] took the slash to be pronounced “over” as in fractions.
>>Makes it look like a stack — GNU userland over Linux kernel.

> No. "Android kernel" means the kernel used by Google, and "windows
> kernel" means the kernel used by Microsoft, obviously, "Linux kernel"
> means the kernel inside a kernel. So "Linux kernel" is definitely
> wrong. You better say "Linux, the kernel," and must use comma, see
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonrestrictive%20clause .
> If you think using comma is a time waster, you can say "the kernel
> Linux".

You must say: "There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its
kernels".

Best regards
--
Tomas



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