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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!feed1.news.erols.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 08:44:43 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 38 Message-ID: <32FB31CB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5d299q$i6r@josie.abo.fi> <5d80q2$8cn@cynic.portal.ca> <5dacro$r0@josie.abo.fi> <5dd9d7$li1@cynic.portal.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156669 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5911 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2336 Curt Sampson wrote: > > In article <5dacro$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. > I disagree about the GNU/FreeBSD allusion... > > (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. > Same as FreeBSD. We may or may not have picked up a few more GPL'ed utilities, but a system can be made to run without them. > 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.) > Essentially the same as FreeBSD +- a few more. We do allow people to create a GPL encumbered kernel, but we will not ship one with the GPL restrictions. John