On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote:

>> The only reason Linux did anything useful was because of GNU software. 
>> That might be different today, but not much different.
>
> Really? I run many Linux systems without a single piece of GNU software. 
> It's certainly not a requirement, and never has been.

That is barely credible.  You don't have ls, pwd, grep?  None of those?
Why would you want a system devoid of such tools?

Mike