[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/21/2024 7:50 PM, motk wrote:
> On 21/04/2024 12:08 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> Why is it the Linux distros are able to maintain a common kernel, but the
>> BSDs are not? Aren’t the BSD kernels flexible enough for such different
>> uses? Which aren’t even that different, compared to how distinct the
>> various Linux distros can be?
> 
> The BSDs have a different philosophy; they consider a system to be 
> kernel+userspace and that they should all be built together, ie RELEASE.

And that perspective is shared by most outside the *nix space.

VMS. Windows. The OS is considered atomic not two separate entities:
kernel and userland.

I suppose Linux is how it is because Linus created a kernel
and they adopted existing userland stuff on top of that. Unlike
DEC, Microsoft and Bell.

Arne