[GRLUG] What is Linux ?

[Michael Mol]

On 3/24/07, Bill Creswell <billcreswell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bob Kline said:
> But of course few here will see it that way.  What the GRLUG mostly
> discusses are Linux applications,  and less so the Linux OS itself.  And
> Linux applications are often as not Linux versions of a package,  and except
> for shared experience have little to do with Linux as an OS.
>
> I would say:
> It would be kinda pointless to use Linux without applications.

Web server?  The kernel has an httpd built in.
File server? The kernel has an NFS daemon built in.
Firewall?  There is, of course, iptables.

Granted, each of these features requires some configuration, which is
typically done by applications.  However, you wouldn't have to
fundamentally alter the kernel in order to give it a default
configuration for any of these services, via a small kernel patch.

(This brings to mind the perpetual debate about what belongs in a
kernel, and what doesn't.)

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