On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 12:28 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > max bianco wrote: > > > > So you refer to your car by engine size? You tell people you drive a > > 2.4 Liter car? > > For the record when explaining to completely clueless people what > > Linux is, they think Linux is one thing like Windows is one thing. > > They will say " You mean like XP and Vista right?" and you'll respond > > *sigh* "No, not like that...." or "Well, sort of but ...." > > Try explaining the concept of a distribution to someone who has no > > idea what your talking about and you will soon find that calling the > > OS Linux is really misleading. I don't care what you call it > > personally but the other side has a very valid point. The kernel is > > useless without the shell, compiler, etc... > > Usually you name something for its more attractive features, not > utilitarian gunk. There was a GNU project before Linux. Next to no one > used it. There is still a GNU project OS without Linux. No one uses > it. What is the attractive part here? Certainly not the GNU mascot. Tux rulz. :) Ric <chuckles> -- ---------------------------------------------------- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar https://oar.dev.java.net/ Verizon Cell # 336-254-1339 ----------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
