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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Windows, | |
is in fact, GNU/NT, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus NT. | |
Windows NT is not an operating system unto itself, but rather a proprietery component | |
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell | |
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. | |
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, | |
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU | |
which is widely used today is often called "Windows NT", and many of its users are | |
not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. | |
There really is a Windows NT, and these people are using it, but it is just a | |
part of the system they use. Windows NT is the kernel: the program in the system | |
that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. | |
The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; | |
it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Windows NT is | |
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system | |
is basically GNU with Windows NT added, or GNU/NT. All the so-called "Windows NT" | |
distributions are really distributions of GNU/NT. |
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