Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.60.229.3!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 11 Feb 1997 02:27:08 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 23 Distribution: comp Message-ID: <5dphhs$eoi@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5deu64$8tk@josie.abo.fi> <5dg6qg$fkr@cynic.portal.ca> <5dncoa$op@josie.abo.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157609 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2448 In article <5dncoa$op@josie.abo.fi>, Mats Andtbacka <mandtbac@abo.fi> wrote: >>So in other words, you don't then recommend an `OS' to people, but >>an `OS with an associated package of utilities.' > >i don't recommend anything even that simple. the conventional wisdom >has been, and remains, that one state clearly what one wants to >accomplish - what work one wishes to do.... Well, spend a bit of time selling systems and programming, and you'll discover that there's really no hope, in most cases, of someone stating clearly what they want to accomplish or do. Regardless, I'd be curious as to why you think that the term `OS' should mean the same as the term `kernel,' and that there should be no easy term for a kernel along with the standard package of utilities that is generally expected to come with it. 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.