-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: > Chuck Robey ha scritto: >> You might possibly be missing one of the most basic (in organization) >> differences between any BSD and any Linux is that BSD's are all built and >> packaged with a set of userland programs. This doesn't include many user >> applications, just the kind of things that you think of as being part >> of any >> base (like shells, or utilities like the various filesystem tools, >> grep, find, >> like that) Linux, OTOH, is only a kernel. Any time you go after a >> distribution >> that has more than the kernel (and ONLY the kernel) its because the group >> putting together that distribution has decided to attach those parts, >> but the >> Linux developers are concerned with the kernel alone. > > Ehm, thanks for the lesson, but I am actually well aware of that. I > installed and used a lot of Linux distros and, to a lesser extent, BSD > and other exotic systems (Hurd anyone?). > > Instead, maybe you might possibly be missing the fact that kernel-BSD > systems with GNU userlands have been attempted (Debian GNU/kFreeBSD > being one - dunno about the Gentoo/FreeBSD port -is it still alive, by > the way?). I wondered if there is the contrary, as a startpoint. > >> So, when you talk about, say, FreeBSD, you're talking about kernel + >> userland >> base. This isn't truie with Linux, so all linuxes are just a little bit >> different in their choice of userland tools. > > That's why I asked if there is some Linux that is not "a little bit" but > *wildly* different, as to be almost unrecognizable as the Linux we're > all familiar with (that usually is done by a bash/zsh/ksh shell + other > gnu coreutils etc.) > > For a (theoretical) example, imagine a system that boots in the Windows > Powershell on top of the Linux kernel. > > m. >
Sorry. Not to be insulting, but it really sounded like a newbie question, which is why I reacted that way. On your own rereading, doesn't it sound a bit that way to you, a bit? I apologize, then. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkifhewACgkQz62J6PPcoOnGyQCfVJeYfaVDjZGChV/U92F3B6ve pqoAni0TBcjaapnxKEmgK20+FcOS/X55 =g/B1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
