Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique - shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.
Pretty much everything on the web uses those two things: C and UNIX. The browsers are written in C. The UNIX kernel - that pretty much the entire Internet runs on - is written in C.
Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
There is no system but GNU and Linux is one of it's kernels
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell. [Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.
Take out the kernel of spiritual truth with any faith, and what is left is dogma.
There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.
Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.
I'm not worried about the kernel itself or the basic system. All the commercialization is about the distributions and the applications. As such, it only brings value-added things to Linux, and it doesn't take anything away from the Linux scene.
Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.
The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.
We can build a better product than Linux.
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.
Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
I never got into Linux. I swear to God, it's only lack of time. I'm past the years of my life where I can really dig into something like running a Linux system. I'm very sympathetic to the whole idea; Linux people always think the way I want to think.
I like cutting through complexity and trying to get to the kernel of an idea.
There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works but only want to use it is not only a tribute to how good Linux is, but it also brings up issues that I would never have thought of otherwise.
Those of us with this ancient compulsion to tell stories sometimes start with a single kernel of something.
The letters and journals we leave behind and the impressions we have made on our contemporaries are the mere husk of the kernel of our essential life. When we die, the kernel is buried with us. This is the horror and pity of death and the reason for the inescapable triviality of biography.
Android's user-space is so different from stock Linux, you can easily say that Android is not in any way a Linux system, except for the kernel.
On a purely technical side, I'm really very happy with how Linux gets used in a very wide set of different areas. It's important for development.
A fusty nut with no kernel.
