Why is Fedora not a Free GNU/Linux distributions?
Björn Persson
listor3.rombobeorn at tdcpost.se
Wed Jul 16 00:41:37 UTC 2008
Gordon Messmer wrote:
> GNU/Linux is an operating system. It implements the interfaces
> described by POSIX. Applications written to conform to that standard
> will build and run on GNU/Linux.
>
> Linux is a kernel. It implements no documented standard (and maintains
> a policy against stable interfaces). Applications do not run on Linux.
Does Linux not implement the system calls described by POSIX?
Björn Persson
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