that old GNU/Linux argument

[Björn Persson]

måndagen den 21 juli 2008 skrev Patrick O'Callaghan:
> On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 15:23 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
> > Tim wrote:
> > > The majority will understand "Linux" as being an OS, the whole
> >
> > thing,
> >
> > > one of the many OS distros that are similar to each other (*), but
> >
> > not
> >
> > > understand it as referring to just the kernel.
> >
> > And then you'll hear arguments like "You think Windows is bloated?
> > Linux is
> > *much* worse! Look, Debian is twenty-one CDs! Thirteen gigabytes! My,
> > what a
> > horribly bloated OS!". They think "the whole thing" is the OS, and so
> > they
> > compare "the Windows OS" to "the Linux OS", not understanding that
> > Debian is
> > a huge collection of programs more comparable to Windows plus Office
> > plus
> > Visual Studio plus MS SQL Server plus Photoshop plus lots and lots of
> > other
> > third-party programs, and that nobody will ever install all those 13
> > GB of
> > Debian packages.
>
> So you explain it. You think you aren't going to have to explain it
> anyway?

How do you expect me to explain it if I'm supposed to let them continue 
thinking that Linux, operating system and distribution are all the same 
thing?

May I inform beginners that Linux is only a part of Debian so that I can 
explain why Debian is so much bigger than Windows? Please?

Björn Persson