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I know this is going to sound like a typical missing-the-point HN comment (and possibly deserves to end up on n-gate) but - I do hate the trend of 'xxxOS' meani
by barnacled 6y ago
I know this is going to sound like a typical missing-the-point HN comment (and possibly deserves to end up on n-gate) but - I do hate the trend of 'xxxOS' meaning not an OS but rather a distribution of linux.
I think it adds confusion as there are xxxOS projects which are indeed separate OSes and it dilutes the meaning of an 'OS'. Probably the GNU/-prefix crowd find it especially egregious as the work put in to the distribution exists more so around tooling than any kernel-specific aspect.
From the name I expected it to be an interesting new microkernel from OpenSUSE (the concept of which surprised me) so I have direct experience of the confusion this naming convention causes :)