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What is the difference between an operating system and a kernel? (HaHa) Well, if you can point me out to some ressource regarding my questions about RMS' deci
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What is the difference between an operating system and a kernel? (HaHa) Well, if you can point me out to some ressource regarding my questions about RMS' decisions, that would be cool. Regarding the GNU name, as far as I am informed RMS wanted to point out that the GNU is a UNIX-like OS as opposed to a non-UNIX like VMS. He decided to go with a unix because it had proven itself to be portable (unlike ITS for example).
- markup 18y agoA kernel is part of the operating system, but the operating system is not composed by the kernel only. Take MacOSX: it is an operating system, its kernel is XNU. Linux itself is a kernel, not an operating system, etc.