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>>> Who said anything about the kernel? I'm talking about the entire Linux
>>> OS. (Most of which is actually GNU, if you want to be technical about
>>> it...)
>>
>> So yes, be technical about it, then - I don't know of any Linux distro 
>> that uses "standard" tools that aren't GNU, be it awk, sed, perl, 
>> bash, etc.
> 
> Except that Unix /= Linux. There's also BSD and Solaris and random stuff 
> like that... and autoconf works with all of them.
> 
> "Windoze" is more or less one product line. Binaries work unmodified on 
> most versions of it. (Assuming the features they use are there.) "Unix" 
> is not one product. It's not even close to being one product. It's a 
> vast stew of different products all bolted together in a giant mess.

I'm not sure if it's possible to put a non-GNU userland (like BSD) along 
with a Linux kernel, but it's definitely possible to have GNU userland 
on many kernels, like BSD.

Heck, the "BSD Subsystem" package for my iPod was based in BSD (duh), I 
removed it and installed Telesphoreo (much better package of unix tools) 
and it's based on GNU tools. Kernel is Mach for ARM processor. I have 
yet to try autoconf stuff there :) (somebody is struggling to get a 
native compiler working)

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