[Info-vax] BSDs vs Linux (was Re: New CEO of VMS Software)

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On 15 Jan 2024 22:07:30 -0000, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Why is there chocolate cake and also angel food cake?

Imagine a world where, if you had one kind of cake, you had to dump all 
traces of it from your plate, and your digestive system, befure you could 
have the other kind.

Linux lets you have both kinds of cake on your plate (and in your stomach) 
at the same time. All the way out to the, ahem, exit point.

How far do you want to go with this digestive analogy?

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>>You don’t have to have anything in the kernel you don’t want. Just build
>>your own, and choose from the vast menu of options for what to include
>>and what to leave out.
> 
> Were I to do this, it wouldn't be Linux either.  Which is fine, but you
> would not be allowed to call it Linux.

Yet it would, and yes you are. That’s why the options are there. For the 
extreme case of this, try “Linux From Scratch”.