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