that old GNU/Linux argument

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 21:43:53 UTC 2008


Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
>> The core of the distribution is the kernel, called Linux.
> 
> What about GNU *core*utils? :-P :-D
> 
> And then, again, what if you remove Linux, install kFreeBSD or
> OpenSolaris in its stead, rebuild glibc to export the same ABI but use
> the system calls of the new kernel, and reboot?  How come that would
> still be Linux?

It wouldn't be Linux. It might be http://www.nexenta.org/os.

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   Les Mikesell
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