Re: GNU/Linux Naming

[David Kastrup]

"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.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum