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In accordance with the prophecy, Scott Dial uttered:
> Wow... so Linux is a flavor of Mac-OS? Wow... I guess that means Aurora
> is a flavor of mac-os
> Linus Akesson wrote:
>>
>> In accordance with the prophecy, Olle Hedman uttered:
>>
>>> James Matthews wrote:
>>>> And you mean www.redhat.org =) I think...isn't that the name of a unix
>>>> flavour?
>>
>>> Yes I mean redhat.. and .com even :)
>>> And no, it isn't a unix flavour, it is a Linux distribution. (Linux is a unix
>>> flavour though) That is, it is the OS Linux, which is free, boundled together
>>> with a lot of software, both free and sometimes nonfree, and includeing an
>>> installation program, that does all the dirty work of setting up stuff, like the
>>> filesystem and configurations, for you.
>>> You don't need to get a distribution to get linux on your computer, but it makes
>>> it a heck of a lot easier.
>>
>>> //Olle
>>
>> Linux is NOT a Unix flavour. That's like stating that Windows 95 is a MacOS
>> flavour, just because they both multitask and have windows and icons.
>>
>> Linus
>>
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>> F U CN RD THS U CNT SPL WRTH A DM!
Didn't say they were. I said that stating that "linux is a unix flavour" is
like stating that "windows 95 is a macos flavour". Clearly it is not.
Linus
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