Every so often, my daughter asks me the question, “What’s your favorite thing to do?” For the last 10 years my answer is always the same thing:

Sleep

I’ve been hearing this debate for nearly 32 years. It’s a useless argument.

The correct name for the # symbol is “octothorpe,” but how many people do you know who call it that? You’ll either hear it called the Pound sign (by us older folk) or the more modern Hash mark.

The fact is, Linux is both a kernel AND an OS.