On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:16:25AM +0000, Paul J Collins mentioned:
> >>>>> "JPL" == John P Looney <john at antefacto.com> writes:
> JPL> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 06:43:26PM -0800, Nick Moffitt mentioned:
> >> Well, this of course leads us into the 'what is linux?'
> >> debate, which ultimately breaks down when you realize that all
> >> the user-space stuff is nigh identical across the free unixes,
> >> given that it's mostly the GNU system.
> JPL> Except for BSD OSes, which use the BSD system :)
> There's a lot more in the GNU system than in the "BSD system":
> compilers, interpreters, a decent editor and a debugger, for starters.
Not the point. The userspace stuff on your average BSD system is
completely different from GNU stuff.
Kate
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