>> The trouble with Linux is that everything is 50,000 utterly *tiny*
>> pieces, each of which does almost nothing useful by itself, and you have
>> to put thousands of these tiny pieces together to do anything useful.
> 
> Well, that's a fallacy right there.  I'm running a monolithic application 
> at the moment called "pan", which is a newsreader.
> 
> I've got another fairly monolithic application called "firefox" running 
> in the background, and another called "OpenOffice" that's at the 
> standby.  Also one called "Pidgin" which is an IM client.
> 
> None of these apps particularly *requires* any of the standard command-
> line utilities on my OS for anything short of building it (if I should 
> desire to do so).

Right. And simply booting the OS doesn't require GRUB, init, chkfs, 
getty, some kind of shell to run all the startup scripts, plus every CLI 
tool that those scripts call...

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