Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:01:26 +0000 (UTC) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions just like there are on Linux? Message-ID: <228572.87896.bm@smtp120.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <COL127-W1547F43A4D7DD207ACCB44E8760@phx.gbl> <20140314100444.33861b86f2bca55f06ed7c41@sohara.org>
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> On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:12:59 +0300
> Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos <jorgeassembler1@outlook.com> wrote:
> > If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions just
> > like there are on Linux?
> Well since Linux is a kernel and FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and
> DragonflyBSD are all complete OSs in order to be correctly called Linux
> they's have to switch to using Linux as the kernel. There have been builds
> of the FreeBSD userland running on a Linux kernel, they weren't noticably
> popular. So I'd say that this assertion has been proven false.
--
> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
There are also builds of a Linux userland on FreeBSD kernel.
Examples include Arch and Gentoo, though the primary project is all-Linux.
Tom
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