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From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: 6 Feb 1997 10:54:31 -0800
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In article <5dacro$r0@josie.abo.fi>, Mats Andtbacka <mandtbac@abo.fi> wrote:
>
>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?

No. Both I and Stallman would say that that system is GNU/FreeBSD.
You'll note that when I refer to `Linux' I am referring to the
Linux kernel, which is not a complete OS. When I refer to `GNU/Linux,'
I am referring to a complete OS.

(And before we get into this, yes, FreeBSD and NetBSD do use some
Gnu software in userland. The reason that I don't refer to NetBSD
as GNU/NetBSD is because it still runs and is capable of doing a
lot of things without that Gnu softare. Specifically, what would
be missing from NetBSD if we removed all Gnu software would be:
the compiler toolchain, uucp, bc, dc, diff, diff3, grep, groff,
rcs, sdiff, send-pr, and sort. A few of these coule be easily,
though not efficiently, replaced.)

cjs
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