Is Linux an Operating System?
Follow @ggarronPerhaps is not one of the more important debates, as if it is an Operating system or not, or if you should name it Linux, or GNU/Linux, is the important thing and maybe the important thing is how it works, and how good you know to use all the programs that are part of the GNU/Linux, discussions are always entertaining, so here I leave you a good point of view about if Linux is or is not an Operating System per se.
If you are at all familiar with my brain sneezes (I could use another word here but this is a respectable blog :) then you know I am always rabbiting on about Linux. I am always Linux this and Linux that. This gets some people upset and they claim that it should be GNU/Linux or perhaps more accurately Linux/GNU. There is a word in the English language (which I hope I am using) called context. In other words, I use the word Linux in the context of a complete Linux based distribution and believe that my readers understand that context.
Lets get down to the nitty gritty of things and define exactly what an operating system is. An operating system, according to my way of thinking, is a bridge between the hardware and the software. It presents a standard interface to the software independent of the underlying hardware.
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