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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:19:47 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        FreeBSD Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Current Gentoo user
Message-ID:  <20071213191947.GH11231@demeter.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <47617EF9.1070000@gmail.com>
References:  <49bf44f10712122100y45f12f77q4ae47f311905be25@mail.gmail.com> <20071213085217.GE29386@telos.xk7.net> <20071213172343.GG11231@demeter.hydra> <47617EF9.1070000@gmail.com>

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On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:50:33PM -0300, Sd?vtaker wrote:
> 
> If you want a fast read: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system#Definition_of_an_Operating_System_.28OS.29
> But there is a lot more info in Tanenbaum books, Staling books, or 
> Silverschatz books, the three of them named "operating systems".
> Rule of the thumb... If you find  an easy application who runs in one 
> "Distribution" and it doesnt run in another one, then you can be pretty 
> sure those are not the same OS. =)

So far, that looks like it matches my idea of an OS.  So . . . how does
this disqualify Gentoo?

-- 
CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
Marvin Minsky: "It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer could
actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game."



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