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In accordance with the prophecy, Olle Hedman uttered:


> James Matthews wrote:
>> And you mean www.redhat.org =) I think...isn't that the name of a unix
>> flavour?

> Yes I mean redhat..  and .com even :)
> And no, it isn't a unix flavour, it is a Linux distribution. (Linux is a unix
> flavour though) That is, it is the OS Linux, which is free, boundled together
> with a lot of software, both free and sometimes nonfree, and includeing an
> installation program, that does all the dirty work of setting up stuff, like the
> filesystem and configurations, for you.
> You don't need to get a distribution to get linux on your computer, but it makes
> it a heck of a lot easier.

> //Olle

Linux is NOT a Unix flavour. That's like stating that Windows 95 is a MacOS
flavour, just because they both multitask and have windows and icons.

Linus

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