Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:52:23 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Thomas Good <tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some food for thought...(OT?) Message-ID: <39357B87.9CDF9328@acuson.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000531091143.18111A-100000@mailhost.nrnet.org>
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Thomas Good wrote: > Hmm...I don't know that buy this one. After all, once we move beyond the > kernel and the /bin --- *sbin directories most of FreeBSD and Linux are GNU > these days. But once you get out of /bin and /sbin we aren't talking about the OS anymore. So it doesn't matter much how much is GNU or not. The kernel and the bare essential infrastructure around it comprise the OS, and meets the dictionary definition of operating system, despite protestations by RMS. So a lot of /bin isn't really the OS to begin with either. And yes, the conclusion that I believe the same about FreeBSD is correct. I view it as the FreeBSD OS plus the FreeBSD core distribution plus the FreeBSD ports collection. Wasn't it also Wes Peters who said FreeBSD is nothing more than a boot loader for emacs? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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