Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jan 1999 15:45:45 -0800 | From | Joel Klecker <> | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux |
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At 21:33 -0500 1999-01-04, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: >No, but they're the "OEM" of the user-space component of all existing Linux >distributions. One can envision a Linux kernel with a BSD libc, which would >carry a canonical triple of "x86-bsd-linux". Or even Sun pulling some >strangeness for low-end systems, with a Solaris-derived libc >("x86-sun-linux").
The vendor part refers to hardware vendor, not software, so unless BSD becomes a hardware vendor, I find the possibility of "x86-bsd-linux" impossible (going by the existance of CPU_TYPE-MANUFACTURER-KERNEL-OPERATING_SYSTEM (according to config.sub), x86-pc-linux-bsd would be possible (ignoring that "x86" is not allowed yet)).
>Yeah, "pc" is pretty lousy --- but it's also what's already in use. Then >again, as a behavior selector it's pretty much useless. The hypothetical >systems above would also qualify for it....
There is this in config.sub:
# We use `pc' rather than `unknown' # because (1) that's what they normally are, and # (2) the word "unknown" tends to confuse beginning users. i[34567]86) basic_machine=$basic_machine-pc ;; -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- <URL:http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/>
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