Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?
Gordon Messmer
yinyang at eburg.com
Wed Jul 16 01:50:55 UTC 2008
Björn Persson wrote:
> Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> GNU/Linux is an operating system. It implements the interfaces
>> described by POSIX. Applications written to conform to that standard
>> will build and run on GNU/Linux.
>>
>> Linux is a kernel. It implements no documented standard (and maintains
>> a policy against stable interfaces). Applications do not run on Linux.
>
> Does Linux not implement the system calls described by POSIX?
System calls, yes, but that's a fraction of the POSIX specification.
GNU/Linux is an implementation of a POSIX operating system. Linux is not.
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