On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Mark Felder wrote:
linux is, in fact, an operating system. debian, red hat, ubuntu,
gentoo, etc are distributions of that OS.
It's not really worth getting into this argument, but I'll reiterate
that no, it's not an OS -- it's a kernel. Without the userland utilities
the distros provide it's not very usable. Linus and co don't maintain
the shell or the rc subsystem or anything like that. They only work on
the kernel and in-tree drivers. We need to be comparing FreeBSD to a
full blown distro.
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if it makes you feel better, then pick a distribution of linux, and
compare it's successes and/or failings to freeBSD.
whether or not linux is an OS or "just a kernel" is irrelevant here, but
at the same time an interesting distinction (and let's not debate it here,
just acknowledge that it's been pointed out) since freeBSD is both a
kernel and a collection of core utilities. in some ways freeBSD is like
the linux kernel, in other ways it's more like a distribution of linux.
would freeBSD benefit from breaking up those things into explicitly
different projects? like linux & GNU?
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