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.
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Eric Crist