[dheretic]

I wouldn't have an issue with what you're saying if you would stop saying that Windows is just a kernel or that Linux is more than a kernel. Saying that Linux is a whole OS is like saying that an engine is an entire car.

[Bush2000]

I wouldn't have an issue with what you're saying if you would stop saying that Windows is just a kernel or that Linux is more than a kernel. Saying that Linux is a whole OS is like saying that an engine is an entire car.

That's the basic issue here: What comprises an OS. And, likewise, I wouldn't have any problem defining Linux merely as a kernel if Linux advocates weren't so disingenuous in insisting that IIS, IE, and Office are flaws in Windows. Under the terms you've described, there have been very few hacks to the Windows and Linux kernels.