A kernel is part of an operating system. I can guarantee the osdev wiki is not calling Linux an entire operating system in itself.
Linux.com in its current state is an abomination
Benjamin Watson
Anthony Turner
No embedded device uses the Linux kernel by itself, they'll have busybox or some minimal operating system
Tyler Barnes
Obviously he meant GNU/Linux. You're the one making a strawman here.
Daniel Taylor
Since when is xfce not lightweight?
Lincoln Gutierrez
This is pathetic.
Sure, but then it's not GNU. Also, whatever application they wrote could have performed the system calls itself. It has access to the full OS functionality.
It's different when your OS is tightly coupled with user space programs. Windows for example doesn't really work without its GUI stuff; there's UAC code coupled to the kernel; the NT interface is private and unstable and even changes between releases.
Jace Parker
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Ian Mitchell
Go back to sucking that corporate cock you illiterate retard.
Linux Kernel Development, by Robert Love - a very decent 'overview' book of the Linux kernel. It doesn't go into too much detail, but provides enough of a big picture and detail view to really get started on a Linux kernel project. Understanding the Linux Kernel, David Bovet - more detailed than Linux Kernel Development. If you want to do more work than browsing the kernel, this has more of the detail required.
These are their references.
Also nice strawman, nobody claims that there are no operating systems that use Linux for the kernel program that are not a GNU operating system. The most popular one being the Android OS, it is noteworthy that all GNU copyleft components where removed in order to allow for a proprietary userspace that spies on the user and denies him control of his computing.
Bentley Evans
For which they used BSD licenses of course, so they can use cuck's software in their proprietary products. Allowing proprietary forks is the sole purpose of permissive licenses.
Mason Ross
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Jacob Sullivan
Yeah, you're starting to understand.
Contrary to what you faggots believe, the 'operating' in operating system doesn't refer to you, it refers to the software. It's the operating system that operates the machine, not you. You just talk to it and ask it to do the shit.
That's exactly what Linux does, and all GNU, busybox or whatever userspace android uses does: talk to the operating system to get it to do things.
Don't turn this into a license war, retards.