[NBLUG/talk] What's the Difference?

Jeremy Turner jeremy at linuxwebguy.com
Wed Jun 25 18:51:02 PDT 2003


On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 18:29, Edward Mendoza wrote:
> Can someone explain the difference between Red Hat linux, for example, and
> GNU/Linux? If this is a complete operating system then why are people still
> using the other distros (other than GNU/Linux)?

'Linux', meaning the kernel (very low level, it talks to hardware)
initially made by Linus, and the GNU tools (init, gcc, etc) made by the
GNU people.  A complete system must have the kernel, but also the tools
to make it happen.  RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, SuSE use both of them but
package them up so that it is easy to install and configure.

Clear as mud?

Jeremy




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