Re: The philosophy of Linux - long

[Mathieu Roy <yeupou gnu org>]

Ronald KA4INM Youvan <ka4inm tampabay rr com> a tapoté :

> > >  Do you have any document describing the "philosophy of
> > > Linux"?  I searched for "philosophy of Linux" but only
>
> > > could find discussions about free vs. non-free and
>
> > > cathedral vs. bazaar.
>
> > Hmm. Have you heard, for example, that Linux is supposed to be
> > functional without X?
>
>    In fact `the X system' is not any part of LINUX, it was written
> by MIT and can be compiled to run under DOS, windows, almost any
> OS, it is not an OS, it is GUI layer like windows 3.1 is, (formally
> called the `X system', now `X windows') It is included to make LINUX
> competitive with winders.  (I think it is in the public domain.)

Sure, X window cannot be part of Linux, since windows is a kernel.
To check what is part of Linux, see http://www.kernel.org 

>    I think "the philosophy of Linux" refers to each program, such as
> all of the utilities like ls or cmp or ps or df or du each doing one
> task, each been debugged thoroughly, does it's task correctly under
> all reasonable circumstances, has all needed command line switches

Finally, "the philosophy of Linux" describe the GNU softwares that
distributions ships. 
Personally, I think the term GNU/Linux more appropriate...

But are talking about mc ? :) 

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Mathieu Roy
 
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