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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 6 Feb 1997 10:54:31 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 26 Distribution: comp Message-ID: <5dd9d7$li1@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5d299q$i6r@josie.abo.fi> <5d80q2$8cn@cynic.portal.ca> <5dacro$r0@josie.abo.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156412 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5888 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2288 In article <5dacro$r0@josie.abo.fi>, Mats Andtbacka <mandtbac@abo.fi> wrote: > >the reason i don't buy this argument of Stallman's is, i could set up >those same GNU utils on a FreeBSD box - maybe even down to GNU libc >now that v2.0 of it is going to be the next version of libc on Linux - >but that still doesn't mean FreeBSD is Linux. or would you say it is? No. Both I and Stallman would say that that system is GNU/FreeBSD. You'll note that when I refer to `Linux' I am referring to the Linux kernel, which is not a complete OS. When I refer to `GNU/Linux,' I am referring to a complete OS. (And before we get into this, yes, FreeBSD and NetBSD do use some Gnu software in userland. The reason that I don't refer to NetBSD as GNU/NetBSD is because it still runs and is capable of doing a lot of things without that Gnu softare. Specifically, what would be missing from NetBSD if we removed all Gnu software would be: the compiler toolchain, uucp, bc, dc, diff, diff3, grep, groff, rcs, sdiff, send-pr, and sort. A few of these coule be easily, though not efficiently, replaced.) cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.