begin John P . Looney quotation:
> 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.
>> Except for BSD OSes, which use the BSD system :)
Funny, they're all compiled with gcc, and they seem to have a
"ports" or "packages" collection that appears to mostly be the gnu
system. Yes, tehre's a small core of BSD code, but most of the
programs on a standard BSD box (whether by number or by overall bytes)
tend to be GNU utilities and third-party GPL'd programs.
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