1$MirOS: src/README,v 1.6 2007/03/02 05:55:11 tg Exp $
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3This is the MirOS base BSD derived operating system,
4kernel and userland, by The MirOS Project – http://mirbsd.de/
5
6MirOS BSD is structured as follows:
7 * MirOS BSD kernel: sys/
8    A BSD-licenced uniprocessor operating system kernel
9    for i386 (and amd64 in 32-bit mode) and (32-bit) sparc CPUs
10 * MirOS userland: bin/ include/ lib/ libexec/ sbin/ usr.bin/ usr.sbin/
11   and supplemental information: etc/ share/
12    A BSD-licenced or similar userland for the MirOS BSD
13    and other UNIX®-like operating system kernels
14 * MirOS non-free section: gnu/
15    Software which is part of the MirOS userland but not
16    as freely licenced as the BSD heritage (e.g. GNU, Sendmail, Perl)
17 * MirOS release engineering: distrib/ scripts/
18    Tools for creating a formal MirOS release
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20MirOS userland is not entirely self-hosted: the C compiler
21is missing. MirOS currently uses the GNU Compiler Collection,
22which cannot entirely be built using tools from MirOS itself
23(most notably, the Ada compiler needs itself to build, and the
24whole thing wants GNU make) nor is it free enough (there are
25licencing implications on some run-time libraries, and the
26documentation is covered by the GFDL) or fits into the goal
27of being a small, modern operating system. That's why gcc is
28not part of MirOS, but contributed on the same media with it.
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30There is no code for an implementation of the X-Windowing
31System either; XFree86™ is contributed similarily to gcc,
32but only for size and practical reasons, since it's free.
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34Licencing information can be found in /usr/share/doc/legal/
35after installation. Wir sind verpeilt und garantieren nichts;
36wer unsere Releases verwendet, ist selber schuld.
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