Thread: Are there Maemo viruses? Is anti-virus software available or necessary?
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2008-04-27 , 04:38
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#41
Originally Posted by paulkoan View Post
Remember that a distribution is just a collection of applications that run on the GNU/Linux kernel.
The kernel is simply "Linux", there's no such thing as a "GNU/Linux" kernel. "GNU/Linux" would refer to the whole distribution (Linux kernel + GNU system).

(The whole naming controversy is really rather ridiculous. . . .)
Last edited by GeneralAntilles; 2008-04-27 at 04:45. Reason: Clarified term usage