"Dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 01/05/2015 20:26, Simon Brown wrote:

It looks like the Unix kernel, it quacks like the Unix kernel, its a
copy.

Not given what has changed since then.

What's changed in the kernel used on PCs that makes them not a copy of
Unix?

I wasnt talking about just the kernel.

You do know linux is only the kernel?

Its much more complicated than that, particularly
with what is used on smartphones.

You will find they use kernels based on Linux, i.e. not linux but some
derivative that has different memory management, etc.

Still comes from Linux.


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The open source software written to use Linux is quite capable of
running on other OSes,

I wasnt talking about that, I was talking about the open source Linux.

So you are only talking about a kernel,

No, the totality of Linux and the derivatives.

what use is that, it doesn't do
anything useful, its the other stuff like ed, vi, gnome, etc. that does
useful stuff and that isn't Linux and doesn't need Linux.

It is in fact much more complicated than that,
particularly with what is used on smartphones.