that old GNU/Linux argument

Les hlhowell at pacbell.net
Sat Jul 26 00:34:34 UTC 2008


Do you know what the BIOS actually does?

Regards,
Les H
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 02:03 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2008, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Marko Vojinovic:
> >>> But tell me, what is in principle The Single Most Important element
> >>> of the car? There is only one answer --- the engine.
> 
> > Alexandre Oliva:
> >> So, what remains to be justified is why you decided Linux is the
> >> engine rather than say one of the tires.
> 
> > You can't really expect anyone to give you any credibility if you want
> > to argue that the kernel, the core of the system, is not the engine.
> 
> By the very same argument, the most "important" piece of software in a
> computer running a GNU/Linux distro would be the BIOS.
> 
> I don't think this reasoning holds much water.
> 
> -- 
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