[wellylug] Forking Linux.

Richard Hector richard at walnut.gen.nz
Thu Nov 11 11:09:59 NZDT 2004


On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:40:48AM -0800, Brent Wood wrote:
> 
> The FOSS report, (on take up of OpenSource in Europe govt & corporate a while
> back) included results from a survey from IT managers on which OS they were
> running. They presented the results, which included the "other" box being
> ticked and Red Hat entered. Linux was one of the unchecked options. The mgrs
> did not know that Red Hat was a Linux distro. But they were happy about using
> it.

Or perhaps they _did_ know that Linux is not an operating system, just a
kernel. Red Hat is an operating system.

Sure it's pedantic, but perhaps they were too :-)

Richard (OS of choice: Debian)




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