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  From: Tim Fairchild <tim_fairchild@bigpond.com>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:38:16 -0400

Re: linux is not GNU/linux [was RedHat 7.1 reliability?]

Okay, so is windows 9x an OS?  Is it DOS... or really sort of win/dos. It's 
DOS underneath, but some win32 stuff working as well... 

If this was transferred to linux, it'd be a bit like calling KDE an OS. 

In win95 I can boot to a command line and access the disk and various stuff, 
therefore the OS seems to be mostly DOS. But then you need the gui running to 
get long filenames... Argh! I'm clueless.

At least with linux I know what some of the various layers are and what they 
do... ie linux bash xfree kwm KDE etc... 

Still confused as to whether mandrake is an OS tho :-)  In reality it's more 
of a complete (ish) computing solution... with os included.

tim

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