If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions just like there are on Linux?

[Thomas Mueller]

> On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 20:12:59 +0300
> Jorge Luis Carvalho Santos <jorgeassembler1 at outlook.com> wrote:

> > If the BSD become known as Linux, BSD distributions will be millions just
> > like there are on Linux?
        
>         Well since Linux is a kernel and FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and
> DragonflyBSD are all complete OSs in order to be correctly called Linux
> they's have to switch to using Linux as the kernel. There have been builds
> of the FreeBSD userland running on a Linux kernel, they weren't noticably
> popular. So I'd say that this assertion has been proven false.

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> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>

There are also builds of a Linux userland on FreeBSD kernel.

Examples include Arch and Gentoo, though the primary project is all-Linux.

Tom