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Linux is not an operating system or a platform, it's a kernel. Ubuntu, RHEL, Suse etc are operating systems, but more importantly they are separate independent
by zokier 6y ago
Linux is not an operating system or a platform, it's a kernel. Ubuntu, RHEL, Suse etc are operating systems, but more importantly they are separate independent operating systems. Their interoperability pretty much starts and ends with POSIX, everything else being more of a happy coincidence. And many of those major Linux-based OSs have strong vendor behind them.
Same way you don't expect cohesiveness between macOS and Windows, I think it is bit unreasonable to expect cohesiveness between RHEL and Ubuntu or whatever.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoPOSIX had a patch update 3 years ago, a minor update 12 years ago, and a major update 19 years ago. That's the problem. The desktop distros could and should have done a lot better to coordinate on fundamentals of user experience in the age of the open/hostile Internet and frequently updated software.
- viraptor 6y agoPOSIX does not know much about desktops really. If you want coordination in fundamentals of desktops, look at Freedesktop specs https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThanks for the referral! Unfortunately the website isn't loading for me. Wikipedia shows their projects seem to be focused on lower level graphics/UI issues, but not app packaging and security issues that have become very important in past 10 years.
- the_why_of_y 6y agoFlatPak was freedesktop.org's app packaging and security project for a couple years, when it was still called xdg-app. It's hosted on github today. https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2015/06/24/xdg-app-moving-to-freedesktop-org/ https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2015/06/24/xdg-app-moving-to-f... https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Flatpak/ https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Flatpak/