Comment by yjftsjthsd-h
4 days ago
> Since Linux has no concept of a base system, it's a stand-alone kernel with a hodgepodge of crap around it - this distinction makes no sense on Linux.
The Linux base system is managed by the package manager, leaving local for the sysadmin to `make install` into
> The Linux base system
There is no such thing as a Linux base system.
Separate components, separate people.
Hence the term Ganoo plus Leenox...
Well, no, my exact argument is that there is a base system, even if it is composed of assorted components. If you install Debian (or whatever) on a machine, the software installed by the package manager ships as a unified release that has been adapted to work together. I think it's reasonable to call that the base OS. And then, separate from that base system that is managed by the package manager, the local admin my install things into /usr/local.
They're talking about Linux, the kernel. The kernel has no concept of a base system. There is initramfs and init.
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If you can remove GNU coreutils and replace them with something else (like that Rust garbage) then you don't have a base system. You have a loose collection of packages around a kernel.
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