>>2653443I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as RMS, is in fact, Tomoko/RMS, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Tomoko plus RMS. RMS is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Tomoko system made useful by the Tomoko corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the Tomoko system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Tomoko which is widely used today is often called “RMS”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Tomoko system, developed by the Tomoko Project. There really is a RMS, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
RMS 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. RMS is normally used in combination with the Tomoko operating system: the whole system is basically Tomoko with RMS added, or Tomoko/RMS. All the so-called "RMS" distributions are really distributions of Tomoko/RMS.
