Comment by schmuckonwheels
4 days ago
> The Linux base system
There is no such thing as a Linux base system.
Separate components, separate people.
Hence the term Ganoo plus Leenox...
4 days ago
> 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.
Okay, that's true but other than the slight semantic point of "Linux" vs a "Linux distro" or "GNU/Linux" I don't think it matters. Whatever words you use to describe it, there is a base OS which is composed of a variety of components from different sources but which ultimately amounts to a single thing.
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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.
Replaces the GNU Coreutils with the Rusty ones on BSD
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