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Yes. it's accurate to describe iOS as iOS/Darwin, and macOS as macOS/Darwin. But "BSD" implies a BSD userland to most people, which macOS has but iOS doesn't.
by damnyou 6y ago
Yes. it's accurate to describe iOS as iOS/Darwin, and macOS as macOS/Darwin. But "BSD" implies a BSD userland to most people, which macOS has but iOS doesn't.
- zepto 6y agoLinux implies a GNU userland to most people which Android does not have.
- saagarjha 6y agoAlpine Linux is unequivocally a Linux despite not having much to do with GNU in userland.
- zepto 6y agoIt has a work-alike of the gnu userland.
- damnyou 6y agoWell, that's precisely what Stallman was trying to address, wasn't he? Trying to separate out the Linux kernel from the GNU userland.
- zepto 6y agoYes, but he had failed before he even started trying to get people to say GNU/Linux instead of Linux. That’s my point - when people say Linux they generally mean GNU/Linux not Android. Equally, people are generally not talking about only the kernel, when they say Linux. Usually when someone is talking about only the kernel they say ‘the Linux kernel’. GNU/Linux usually only gets used by the FSF or during discussions of this kind. “Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.” [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux