9 Jul
2004
9 Jul
'04
5:59 p.m.
Chris Pickett wrote:
RickTaylor(a)Speakeasy.Net wrote:
What I meant to say was, every piece is essential in a fluid,
well-functioning system, and there is no differentiation between them,
but if one insists on drawing a line somewhere then it's between kernel
space and userland. Including music stuff :)
Chris
I'm thinking more along the lines of a open
source system with shareware apps.
I think the system itself would go down the tubes if you started getting
internal competition, etc.
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.