[ros-kernel] Re: Proposed books for rosdocs

[Robert C. <rob...@it...>]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aidan Kehoe" <ke...@pa...>
> To: <ros...@re...>
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 11:52 PM
> Subject: [ros-kernel] Re: Proposed books for rosdocs
>

>
>  Ar an 8ú lá de mí 10, scríobh Robert Collins :
>
>  > I think you msised the point,
>  > Suse = distributor, kernel = linux.
>  > MS = distributor,   kernel = NT.
>  > ??? = distributor   ,kernel = reactOS.
>
> Umm, so why are you taking Linux as your model? Why not a BSD? Or Plan
> 9? Me, I prefer the overall coherency that comes with a system where

Very good point here. I use openBSD myself, and do enjoy the resulting
quality... However I was pointing out that a point had been made about
ReactOS and the answer 'Suse is 6 CD's' did not AFAICT acknowledge the
point the author was trying to make.

> people who write kernel code have something to do with the man pages,
> just as an example. Notepad.exe being 'part of' NT fits fine into this
> model.

Sure, I have no problems there.

However to address your comment re: man pages and kernel hackers,
companies such as Suse and Redhat employ kernel hackers - so kernel
hackers are involved in the process of releasing distributions.

In fact in the early days (not sure how far back, I'm remembering from
1996)  linux was a distribution put together by Linus... but I ascribe a
lot of it's growing popularity increasing contributors to the
distributed approach. But that's a different discussion :}.



Rob


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