>>1102959I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Stone, is in fact, Rock/Stone, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Rock plus Stone. Stone is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Rock system made useful by the Rock corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the Rock system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Rock which is widely used today is often called Stone, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Rock system, developed by the Rock Project.
There really is a Stone, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Stone 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. Stone is normally used in combination with the Rock operating system: the whole system is basically Rock with Stone added, or Rock/Stone. All the so-called Stone distributions are really distributions of Rock/Stone!
