From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 10 19:55:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1371516A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:55:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-aubervilliers.netaktiv.com (soyouz.netaktiv.com [80.67.170.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6043543D2D for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:55:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stephane@laperouse.internatif.org) Received: by mail-aubervilliers.netaktiv.com (Postfix, from userid 10) id C3D0F23D09; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 04:55:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by fetiche.sources.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8D37B9AD0; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:05:41 +0430 (AFT) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 21:05:41 +0430 From: Stephane Bortzmeyer To: Scott W Message-ID: <20031210163541.GA800@fetiche.sources.org> References: <012701c3bde4$4acf2b30$019c9752@xp> <20031209013027.GC1099@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <03da01c3be90$032636f0$019c9752@xp> <3FD633A9.20801@mindcore.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FD633A9.20801@mindcore.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Transport: UUCP rules X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE i386 cc: Vahric MUHTARYAN cc: FreeBSD questions List Subject: Re: Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 03:55:11 -0000 On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:42:17PM -0500, Scott W wrote a message of 104 lines which said: > 1. Kernel. Umm, I hope I don't have to expain this one ;-) > 2. Core system- This one can likely be argued a bit with bsd (and > 3. userland apps- Kernel and core make a rudimentary system, but I don't have the Handbook to check and I'm offline at the present time but I'm suprised. I thought that "userland" meaned "everything which is not the kernel", including the base system. What you call "userland", "everything but the base system", seems to be what the Handbook calls the ports.