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I don't see the point in this discussion

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 19, 2007 07:58 PM
Really. Consider NexentaOS (<a href="http://www.gnusolaris.org/" title="gnusolaris.org">http://www.gnusolaris.org/</a gnusolaris.org> for example. Is it a distro? Well, it is indistinguishable for the end user from Debian/Ubuntu. Because it integrates the OpenSolaris kernel with the tools used by these distributions. Inclusive dpkg/apt, Gnome, whatever. An obvious example for a distro without the linux kernel.

Or Debian/kBSD? Debian is a distro without any doubt. But it is up to you to use it with the Linux, HURD or BSD kernel.

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