> First I've never heard (or seen written) GNU/OpenSolaris before today,
Strange - Sun are distributing it. http://get.opensolaris.org/ and don't forget: http://www.gnusolaris.org/ > neither have I seen GNU/*BSD (has anyone applied the GNU toolset to the BSD > kernel, and who survived= the ensuing licence flame war) . http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ http://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/ http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ > It's certainly not > in common usage even when referring to those operating systems. Oh it is, but those operating systems are different to netbsd and freebsd. > Secondly the > reverse is also true, I could take much of the the GNU toolset and replace > them whilst still running a Linux system. Does this mean that if, for > example I dropped the switched the GNU toolset for the BSD one, I'd have to > call the resulting system BSD/Linux?? GNU's not a toolset, it's an operating system - but you can replace coretuils, shell, libraries, etc with say, Busybox, and have a non-GNU Linux system. > The easiest way to clear this up is for you to define "Operating System" to > me; I don't belive that userland tools are part of an OS, do you? GNU isn't a set of userland tools. It contains a shell, compiler, libraries and coreutils, as defined in the POSIX standard. Certainly, a kernel does not an operating system make. >> Progress on the Hurd is slow - when there are already several better >> working kernels for the GNU system, it is difficult to get a critical >> mass of developers to work on another kernel, when there are more >> important free software projects to hack on. > Also can you define the "GNU system" to me please, is it anything with the > GPL attached, or just GCC? The GNU Operating system - base level - GNU Coreutils, GNU Bash, glibc, gcc. Hurd. Replace Hurd with Linux = GNU + Linux, or GNU/Linux. Coreutils:- chgrp chown chmod cp dd df dir dircolors install ln ls mkdir mkfifo mknod mv rm rmdir shred sync touch vdir Text utilities cat cksum comm csplit cut expand fmt fold head join md5sum nl od paste ptx pr sha1sum sort split sum tac tail tr tsort unexpand uniq wc basename chroot date dirname du echo env expr factor false groups hostid id link logname nice nohup pathchk pinky printenv printf pwd readlink seq sleep stat stty tee test true tty uname unlink users who whoami yes And no, applying the GPL to something doesn't make it a part of the GNU System. http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/ lists all pieces of the GNU OS. GNOME is part of the GNU OS :) - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
