[linux-audio-user] Finale for Linux

[tim hall]

Last Friday 09 July 2004 20:31, RickTaylor at speakeasy.net was like:
>  I don't see anything wrong with asking. I don't think anyone should be
> "pressuring"

Then we are of one mind. The 'not pressuring' is the important point.

Last Friday 09 July 2004 20:37, Chris Pickett was like:
> I guess ... I guess I've stopped distinguishing between system and
> application.  Is Mozilla part of the system?  Or is it definitely an
> application?  Do you define application by replaceable, non-essential
> part?  What's essential?  Is X essential?  How about bash?  Is the linux
> kernel even essential?  Can't you run this software with a different
> kernel?  I basically view everything as a set of interoperating programs
> -- including the music stuff -- although I might concede that the kernel
> is perhaps the only "true" system component.

Hmm, Zen mind ...
Surely no application IS the system. All including the kernel can be seen as 
separate entities. There is a clear cut definition of which applications are 
essential parts of the system, but the system itself is more abstract than 
that, more like a protocol in some ways.

Last Friday 09 July 2004 21:30, RickTaylor at speakeasy.net was like:
>  In other words Photoshop is essential to a graphics system?

Clearly not ;-).

Cue timpani, horns and grand restatement of original themes ...

cheers

tim hall