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Article #4333Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
From: Robert Uhl ruhl
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:39
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 15:39
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Steve Mading <madings@baladi.bmrb.wisc.edu> writes: > > : This is not quite correct. You can start a single user program > : from the kernel command line with init=. That could be enough for > : some systems. > > Alright, then switching from programs to other files, would that > one userland process function very well without any of the > libraries in /lib, without the ability to interface with with > system routines because the library to interface with the kernel > is not there? It could interface to the kernel directly... > I still maintain that there is a bit more to the core linux OS than > just a running kernel, given that the kernel on its own is entirely > useless without at least a filesystem to mount as '/'. Well, as has been pointed out you cna use a kernel in runlevel 0 as a workable firewall. Which is neat. -- Robert Uhl <ruhl@4dv.net> A well-educated electorate being necessary to the prosperity of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books, shall not be infringed.
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