From J. Grant: > I expect [the BeOS kernel] could be slotted into a GNU system. GNU is basically a collection of utilities that were once part of closed-source Unix. The GNU folks took those utilities and made their own open-source versions. So the phrase 'a GNU system' implies a Unix-like operating system. Unlike Linux, FreeBSD, and the rest, the design of BeOS is not at all Unix-like. That's why it won't be realistic to expect that you can take the BeOS kernel and use it as a replacement for the Linux/FreeBSD/whatever kernel. That doesn't mean Unix or command line utilities are bad. In fact, the Bash shell is one of the few things that BeOS _did_ borrow from Unix. -Matthijs