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197891	2003-12-07 01:42:00	There is also the point (whicu is often made by the FSF people ;-)) that Linus produced the kernel. The OS should be referred to as GNU/Linux. Almost all of the utilities (compilers, text processors, libraries, etc are from GNU ...) and Linus couldn't have done it without them. Almost all the OS functions have been around for a long time because they were written for "real" Unix. It was a matter of timings ... there were three BSD Unix projects active at the time as team operations and still going, as well as the GNU kernel. The BSDs have different concentrations ... NetBSD has lots (60+) of platforms, FreeBSD and OpenBSD go for security and ? . They are all working together on security. Linux runs on only about 8 platforms.	Graham L (2)
197892	2003-12-07 02:07:00	Hey Graham isn't it real UNIX? -www.bell-labs.com ;) Considering the Linux kernal was originally designed for the x86 platform as opposed the NT based windows, that with its HAL is multiplatform, (or ment to be -MS seem to have reduced the platforms it runs on) Having 8 platforms now isn't too bad don't ya think. I guess a good thing about Linux is it make the general populous realise there are alternatives to MS offerings. I'd never heard of UNIX and BSD untill I started researching Linux a few years ago.	mark.p (383)
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