Norbert Hartl wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 11:03 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 14:42 +0200, Norbert Hartl wrote:
>>     
>>> Even if squeak could cope well with all sorts of dependency and 
>>> conflicts management it wouldn't change much. Debian is an operating
>>> system and they are looking for an operating-system-way to do all
>>> these things. 
>>>       
>> Debian is a distribution that includes operating systems (primarily
>> Linux, but at various times BSD and Hurd) and a lot of other software.
>>
>>     
> Of course, debian is a distribution system for software. But for me it
> is an operating system, too. The name is DebianLinux but you can savely
> omit the Linux and everybody knows what you mean :)
>
> To be correct (I think you wanted to be) none of your examples is an
> operating system. Linux and Hurd are kernels and BSD is an operating
> system family. 

Do squeak run on Hurd ?

Karl