Why userland , basesystem and Kernel are together?!

[Scott W]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:42:17PM -0500,
> Scott W <wegster at mindcore.net> wrote 
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>>1.  Kernel.  Umm, I hope I don't have to expain this one ;-) 
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>>2.  Core system- This one can likely be argued a bit with bsd (and 
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>>3.  userland apps- Kernel and core make a rudimentary system, but 
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>I don't have the Handbook to check and I'm offline at the present time
>but I'm suprised. I thought that "userland" meaned "everything which
>is not the kernel", including the base system.
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>What you call "userland", "everything but the base system", seems to
>be what the Handbook calls the ports.
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Your statement's completely true- 'userland' is anything outside of the 
kernel....but for explanations sake to the original poster, it seemed 
the most fitting explanation.  I guess it would have been better worded 
as 'all the rest of the apps' AKA ports :-)  Sorry for any confusion...

Scott