On Oct 6, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Max Shinn wrote: > P.S. - With Hurd and Mach, GNU does run alone. Linux does not. *Actually*, Linux does run alone. You just can't do anything with what *is* running. Might as well use FreeBSD. You don't have a Linux kernel and you don't have to deal with the GNU tools. Note: I know there are some tools included with FreeBSD which are GNU. The system would still run without them. --- Eric Crist