From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 02:33:30 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 681D416A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:33:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mailout.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A03543D38 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:33:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from barner@in.tum.de) Received: from zi025.glhnet.mhn.de (localhost.glhnet.mhn.de. [127.0.0.1]) by zi025.glhnet.mhn.de (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hBBAXQMd001443; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:33:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from simon@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de) Received: (from simon@localhost) by zi025.glhnet.mhn.de (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hBBAXOBV001442; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:33:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from simon) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:33:24 +0100 From: Simon Barner To: Stephane Bortzmeyer Message-ID: <20031211103324.GA1152@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <012701c3bde4$4acf2b30$019c9752@xp> <20031209013027.GC1099@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <03da01c3be90$032636f0$019c9752@xp> <20031210011904.GB2145@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <20031210163945.GB800@fetiche.sources.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031210163945.GB800@fetiche.sources.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at informatik.tu-muenchen.de 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 10:33:30 -0000 --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > You are comparing apples and oranges. Linux is a kernel, not an > operating system. "Distributions" is a specially ill-choosen word in > the Linux world. There are several operating systems, Debian, RedHat, > Mandrake, which only have in common to use the Linux kernel. Well, this is what I indendet to express. Besides that, I'd say that the various GNU/Linux flavours (let's put it that way ;-) have more in common than just the kernel: The GNUish userland (parts of which are used in FreeBSD, too). > Forget > the word "distributions" which seems to imply that an operating > system is defined by its kernel. I also dislike the term `distribution', I only used it for better comparability. Simon --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/2Ef0Ckn+/eutqCoRAqr6AKCpLUB3tW7F+Lk+oT3izeiqO4vbrACgikz+ Yss3yatWwNXKRWtT5LUuiQI= =AB7R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4--