[Info-vax] HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <lchnas$ght$2 at iltempo.update.uu.se>,
	Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> On 2014-01-31 13:52, Robert Koehler wrote:
>> bill at server2.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>
>>>
>>> Heck, today tou even run Linux with a FreeBSD kernel.  Not really sure
>>> what part that leaves that is Linux, but what do I know.
>>>
>>> http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
>>
>>    Sounds like a misnomer.  I'd call that running GNU OS with a FreeBSD
>>    kernel, or just running GNU utilities on FreeBSD.
>>
>>    Running gnu utilities on VMS don't make it Linux, either.
> 
> Indeed.
> And they don't call it Linux either, so I don't know what Bill was 
> thinking about here...
 
I was thinking about perception.  Barely a half-dozen messages ago
someone stated that when people buy a box with Linux on it they
have expectations.  And what about a box with Debian on it?  Last
I heard Debian was one of the most popular Linux distros.  But wait...
Does that box labeled Debian actually contain Linux or is it really
a FreeBSD distro?

bill

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