From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SRZst-0006OV-Ak for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 08 May 2012 02:10:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A069E095F; Tue, 8 May 2012 02:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from edge1.cs.stonybrook.edu (edge1.cs.stonybrook.edu [130.245.9.210]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 744A4E084E for ; Tue, 8 May 2012 02:09:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu (130.245.9.206) by edge1.cs.stonybrook.edu (130.245.9.210) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.355.2; Mon, 7 May 2012 22:09:31 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (108.46.203.161) by hubcas1.cs.stonybrook.edu (130.245.9.212) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.323.3; Mon, 7 May 2012 22:09:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4FA88049.6090806@cs.stonybrook.edu> Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 22:09:13 -0400 From: Richard Yao User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/10.0.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: CC: Steven J Long Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012] References: <4F833687.4040004@gentoo.org> <4F8503DF.1010802@gentoo.org> <4F85E21C.4060106@gentoo.org> <20120423012540.GA2130@waltdnes.org> <20120505010529.GD22763@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.5 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB7856202C447BE4E92796BEA" X-Originating-IP: [108.46.203.161] X-Archives-Salt: 198beee9-3486-4999-9368-f348debeb17d X-Archives-Hash: 9a3f9462284febac073dec098dd7e371 --------------enigB7856202C447BE4E92796BEA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/07/12 21:40, Steven J Long wrote: > "The future of GNOME is as a Linux based OS. It is harmful to pretend > that you are writing the OS core to work on any number of different > kernels, user space subsystem combinations, and core libraries.. > Kernels just aren't that interesting. Linux isn't an OS. Now it is > our job to try to build one - finally. Let's do it."[3] For what it is worth, the OS core is the kernel, libc and bootloader. GNOME runs on top of that. --------------enigB7856202C447BE4E92796BEA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJPqIBMAAoJELFAT5FmjZuE2l0P/iBOrYyP0XNpAmRIZfA2rxy5 eyOqutnAs9mOdTxhPTAe3hbP3QdbVfmz2sWaBr3ArG7tG5lAglFpBNbz4SLjndqr ItKiPm0434m2vs+t6830ig8ER/q6SzFTCMOZ7d8RO4lV2bmlXAu4SOyg3q0YtKYn P8HIIps4x0ApeATQgNkme9udC8fmIiK7gvmjvzQcWjrYvUmY1u+59eBlmH4j8/nC 74O2YW+VdPhXEPCWhZZZ2IBNfooAN+BrAzlfh0q1pdOG+bA+8qSy0u3BVSdZnaRr oXWP9mgcdJO8PeM7HFkmYAOc8qeqJeSo8H+YbQKeKO7Xlp9Td4l2cDyuI8Z9A7Ld wxoNiDa0W6BwYDQwJGt/p+WdendVQP+d1l3lrDRYEDXzWFz4fbeymHWkSU/aYf3b oP/MV42uV9YyHmK4RGBLadCcZQjH/O7X2KSxss5D7yHMMSib61hWIzQUijTD7Lf2 hdlJq342I8/qjpXHsXafaGXK5aHTc0ViMIHL4Gv2C+Gf2g34EvJYvBbj9Or9l2N3 jmJi1f7szdzdcPoeLNORxGyImbJLMPoJaAIO8qVD00X9ytTdBwyXhLqLiqQmODzj XHKe5n3o2sFHL1gfAD0FsreT/8dBPkSsplZkuxsTwU/fyN1erWYswn2C7pp6k6/B AlA1MkgCA2W24d4KVMuF =u/K2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB7856202C447BE4E92796BEA--