Reply to post: Re: Linux is not an OS

30 years of Linux: OS was successful because of how it was licensed, says Red Hat

elaar

Re: Linux is not an OS

"To have a complete OS you need at least a kernel, an init system, and the toolchain to compile it. Therefore, Linux alone is NOT an OS"

Then nor is MacOS, Android, and others.

All Linux distributions include this. Are we really going to argue the semantics about this?

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