Re: What OS is used by Richard Stallman

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "mg" == microsoft gaofei <wangziheng@outlook.com> writes:

>> I [always?] took the slash to be pronounced “over” as in fractions.
>> Makes it look like a stack ― GNU userland over Linux kernel.
mg> No.  "Android kernel" means the kernel used by Google, and
mg> "windows kernel" means the kernel used by Microsoft, obviously,
mg> "Linux kernel" means the kernel inside a kernel. So "Linux kernel"
mg> is definitely wrong. You better say "Linux, the kernel," and must
mg> use comma, see
mg> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonrestrictive%20clause

Linux _IS_ a kernel.

The GNU userland works (in GNU/Linux) by issuing system calls to the
Linux kernel and therefore is "over" the kernel as the Earth crust is
over the core.

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