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From: mandtbac@news.abo.fi (Mats Andtbacka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Date: 5 Feb 1997 16:35:04 GMT
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Curt Sampson, in <5d80q2$8cn@cynic.portal.ca>:
>In article <5d299q$i6r@josie.abo.fi>, Mats Andtbacka <mandtbac@abo.fi> wrote:
>>(and no, i don't see Linux as being "fragmented" due to there being
>>different distributions. that's because i don't buy Stallman's silly
>>argument that "the utilities are part of the OS"; the kernel, in my
>>opinion, defines the OS, and there can be only one Linux kernel.)
>So how many people do you know running just the Linux kernel,
>without any of those GNU utilities or shells?
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?
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