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Re: Portability of Linux

Curt Sampson
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 20:05:39 -0700 (PDT)

On 28 Aug 1998, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:

> :) Whell... In my opinion, they are still correct, since the OS is the
> kernel, Operating System, the system that operates the system (hardware).

I think you're going to have a tough time finding people who truly
agree that the Bourne shell, vi and grep are not part of Unix.

If Linux really is only the kernel, does that mean that there's no
difference at all between RedHat, Debian and Slackware Linux? :-)

cjs

Curt Sampson
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