RE: Offtopic - Amiga and Linux join forces?
> >>>>> In article <[🔎] 378C9371.4B6168FC@mindspring.com>, "Keith G. Murphy"
> >>>>> <keithmur@mindspring.com> writes:
<snip>
> for a new kernel. The will take the Linux kernel, cause there are much
> device drivers, so they are only interested in hardware
> support. Around this kernel they will make an AmigaOS. So nothing will
> look like a Linux, not the command line, not the GUI and there is a
> good chance even the API will not look like the Linux API. It will be
> the innermost section of the OS which is based on Linux. As i
> understand the text, you can say, Linux is something like the Hardware
> Abstraction Layer of NT for the new AmigaOS. And on this Linux, which
> is there to support more hardware, a complete AmigaOS is set on
> top. And with this AmigaOS the user and even the programmer has to
> deal, so neither of them will see anything of Linux.
>
> And from this point of view, the hole thing has nothing to do with any
> Linux-Distribution.
Well, they are distributing an OS with the Linux kernel. IMO,
that makes it a Linux distribution. If they don't use GNU tools,
then it's not a "GNU" distribution of Linux, though.
It still won't have a look familiar to GNU/Linux users, or
freeBSD users, or any other *nix user, so it's a safe bet that
they won't be stealing from the GNU/Linux userbase.
Just my $.02.
--David
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