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Is it really a distro? Surely a distro is a collection of tools, applications, and a kernel that form an operating system. Haiku is a single project operating

by mprev 6y ago

Is it really a distro? Surely a distro is a collection of tools, applications, and a kernel that form an operating system. Haiku is a single project operating system, so when they make a release it's not a distribution as such, is it? We wouldn't call Windows 10 a Windows distro.

warpech 6y ago
Oh how I wish there were Windows distros
- xvilka 6y ago
  ReactOS[1]? [1] https://reactos.org/ https://reactos.org/
- qwerty456127 6y ago
  There are (not legal to be distributed publicly though) and you can make one yourself.
agildehaus 6y ago
Haiku considers itself the one true distro of Haiku. https://www.haiku-os.org/community/guidelines_creating_haiku_distribution/ https://www.haiku-os.org/community/guidelines_creating_haiku...
Gracana 6y ago
Jim Salter has been doing a series of Linux distro reviews, so the title ties into that, even if Haiku being a BeOS distro (or Haiku distro?) is a little questionable.
yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
> We wouldn't call Windows 10 a Windows distro. Actually, that's a kinda interesting question; I think what makes a distro is that it's a combination of components, right? So FreeBSD isn't a distro, it's one single thing. But GhostBSD is a distro, because it takes a base OS and bundles it with packages and tweaks to make it a nice GUI system. So does the existence of Windows LTSC and [Windows] Server Core (or even Nano) not imply that Windows is a distro? They all take the NT base OS, and pack on various components to build different versions of the "Windows" product family. Or is that more like adding sets to a BSD; just because you can include or exclude the X tarball doesn't make OpenBSD not a single system. Maybe the distinction is who's making it; Windows isn't a distro because it's all Microsoft's parts; a GNU/Linux distro, in contrast, is a patchwork of parts from different organizations.
- fooblat 6y ago
  Technically, all the BSDs are distributions. That's what the "D" in BSD stands for. Historically they were distros of UNIX. Edit: typos
  - yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
    Technically yes that is in the name, but it's like a "cellphone" being a small computer that may or may not make phone calls; BSD was indeed a distro (or at least patchset) on top of Unix™, but modern BSDs aren't distros in that sense.

by mprev 6y ago

warpech 6y ago

Oh how I wish there were Windows distros

xvilka 6y ago
ReactOS[1]? [1] https://reactos.org/ https://reactos.org/
qwerty456127 6y ago
There are (not legal to be distributed publicly though) and you can make one yourself.

agildehaus 6y ago

Haiku considers itself the one true distro of Haiku. https://www.haiku-os.org/community/guidelines_creating_haiku_distribution/ https://www.haiku-os.org/community/guidelines_creating_haiku...

Gracana 6y ago

Jim Salter has been doing a series of Linux distro reviews, so the title ties into that, even if Haiku being a BeOS distro (or Haiku distro?) is a little questionable.

yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago

> We wouldn't call Windows 10 a Windows distro. Actually, that's a kinda interesting question; I think what makes a distro is that it's a combination of components, right? So FreeBSD isn't a distro, it's one single thing. But GhostBSD is a distro, because it takes a base OS and bundles it with packages and tweaks to make it a nice GUI system. So does the existence of Windows LTSC and [Windows] Server Core (or even Nano) not imply that Windows is a distro? They all take the NT base OS, and pack on various components to build different versions of the "Windows" product family. Or is that more like adding sets to a BSD; just because you can include or exclude the X tarball doesn't make OpenBSD not a single system. Maybe the distinction is who's making it; Windows isn't a distro because it's all Microsoft's parts; a GNU/Linux distro, in contrast, is a patchwork of parts from different organizations.

fooblat 6y ago
Technically, all the BSDs are distributions. That's what the "D" in BSD stands for. Historically they were distros of UNIX. Edit: typos
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
  Technically yes that is in the name, but it's like a "cellphone" being a small computer that may or may not make phone calls; BSD was indeed a distro (or at least patchset) on top of Unix™, but modern BSDs aren't distros in that sense.