a long rebuttal to the Linux-is-the-engine fallacy
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 28 17:56:17 UTC 2008
> >> > Where is the script that I shall run to make
> my system
> >> a GNU/Linux system?
>
> >> You don't need to run any script to do so, it
> already is a
> >> GNU/Linux system.
>
> >
> http://www.fsfla.org/svn/fsfla/software/linux-libre/scripts/
>
> These will make your *kernel* free. They have no effect on
> the rest
> of the operating system. They won't make it any more
> or less GNU.
> They don't affect GNU software at all.
>
> --
But my *kernel* is free. What is wrong with the Fedora kernel?
[olivares at localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 21 01:09:10 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I can download it from kernel.org, and compile it and it is free.
Regards,
Antonio
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