Stop trying to redefine the term "Operating System". The rest of what you said might have merit, but once you tried to force your (wrong) interpretation of "Operating System" onto others I lost interest. Please explain to me and others how Linux is not an operating system.
No, he's correct. Linux is not an OS its a kernel, pure a simple. You can download the latest version of "Linux" from kernel.org but but you can't to anything with it. You can't burn it to an iso and boot it. Now Red Hat Linux is an operating system, because they bundle the kernel with GNU but "Linux" is not. OpenBSD is an OS, it contains a kernel PLUS everything else needed to perform functions. Linux is like car engine but with out the rest of the car is pretty useless.
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Stop trying to redefine the term "Operating System". The rest of what you said might have merit, but once you tried to force your (wrong) interpretation of "Operating System" onto others I lost interest. Please explain to me and others how Linux is not an operating system.
No, he's correct. Linux is not an OS its a kernel, pure a simple. You can download the latest version of "Linux" from kernel.org but but you can't to anything with it. You can't burn it to an iso and boot it. Now Red Hat Linux is an operating system, because they bundle the kernel with GNU but "Linux" is not. OpenBSD is an OS, it contains a kernel PLUS everything else needed to perform functions. Linux is like car engine but with out the rest of the car is pretty useless.