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Beanis is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Beanis, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Beanis, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Beanis is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Beanis is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Beanis added, or GNU/Beanis. All the so-called Beanis distributions are really distributions of GNU/Beanis!

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[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago
[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As the inventor of Beanis this is false. I reserve all rights to Beanis and make a royalty on each post

[–] jared@mander.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

Free Beanis!

[–] starlight32@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

'pastaNo, Richard, it's 'Beanis', not 'GNU/Beanis'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Beanis were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.

One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Beanis is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Beanis' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Beanis? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Beanis because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?

(An operating system) != (a distribution). Beanis is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Beanis in use. However, Beanis is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Beanis (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Beanis' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Beanis alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

Next, even if we limit the GNU/Beanis title to the GNU-based Beanis distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Beanis installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Beanis? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Beanis? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.

You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Beanis distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.

Last, I'd like to point out that we Beanis and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Beanis was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Beanis compiler'? Or at least, 'Beanis GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Beanis? Languishing with the HURD?

If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:

Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Beanis' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Beanis. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.

Thanks for listening.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

| sed -i ‘s/corelibs/radlibs/g’

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

I thought corn was the kernel