OS costs

[Paul Vixie]

rcd at ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
# But what about the OS interface and
# all the libraries and applications?  In other words, suppose that you *did*
# have a completely free Mach kernel...now what about the remaining 99% of
# what it takes to make a usable system?  (99% is not an exaggeration.  It's
# probably low.)

Is there something outside the kernel that you want that isn't available
from GNU or somewhere in the PD?  GNU has the fileutils (rm, ls, and so on)
plus bash plus awk plus grep plus emacs; I use RCS so I don't need SCCS (RCS
is roughly PD); all my network utilities and libraries are from Berkeley.

I guess we've got some work on libc, but I think there's already a free libm.

Just what things do you want that you can't already get from !ATT ?
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Paul Vixie
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