Andy Ruhl wrote:
> On 8/31/06, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> wrote:
> 
>> BSD is about an operating system, not about a kernel.
> 
> Bingo. Good point. This point is lost sometimes.
> 
> I believe NetBSD has the proper philosophy in regards to the entire OS
> as well. I don't want apache built in, for instance.

This is a silly definition (imho) which I first heard Stallman use, but 
seems to be spreading.
Every book on operating systems that I own, or have read, defines an 
operating system as the kernel. Different applications, including even 
shells, are not the operating system.

But that's just my opinion, of course. But most of all, I don't see the 
relevance of bringing the discussion down to a hair-splitting of what an 
operating system is.

	Johnny