[dheretic]

Thanks, Clinton. I forgot. It depends on what "Linux is".

Well for some reason you cannot seem to grasp the concept of Linux being just a kernel so yes, it does depnd on what "Linux is" because to you, somehow a kernel is a whole OS. Kernel.org which is the official repository does not distribute an OS, it distributes a kernel. Get it right. What Microsoft puts on the shelf is a full featured OS including a kernel, windowing system, desktop, "standardized" APIs and the other typical trappings of an OS.

[Bush2000]

Well for some reason you cannot seem to grasp the concept of Linux being just a kernel so yes, it does depnd on what "Linux is" because to you, somehow a kernel is a whole OS. Kernel.org which is the official repository does not distribute an OS, it distributes a kernel. Get it right. What Microsoft puts on the shelf is a full featured OS including a kernel, windowing system, desktop, "standardized" APIs and the other typical trappings of an OS.

That all may be well and good for geeks but the fact of the matter is that RedHat and other companies are distributing "Linux" as a packaged OS, including ftp servers, dns, Apache, etc. That's why we call it "RedHat Linux". And why, increasingly, your distinctions are meaningless to all but ABMer geeks who want to deflect blame for bugs from Linux to the individual teams.