On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 13:16, Jan L. Peterson wrote: > When I think about an operating system, I'm thinking about that base > level of functionality required to make the system usable. Note that > doesn't include, e.g., X, KDE, Gnome, Apache, etc. It does include the > contents of /bin, /sbin, /lib, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/lib. > > -jan-
That's a definition that requires another definition, what does "usable" mean? There is too much ambiguity and variation there (hence this pointless thread continues). Bryan P.S. By the way, in modern Linux distro's every app is in /usr/bin. I'm guessing though that you don't really mean to say that you need /usr/bin/gnome-calculator to have a "usable" system, or in other words that gnome-calculator is part of the OS. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
