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I'm pretty sure it is a Linux distro, if slightly unusual userspace.

by yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago

kragen 2y ago
why are they calling it an os then? cosplaying arnold kling?
- akovaski 2y ago
  Its fairly common to refer to Linux distros as an OS, or even include OS in the distro name (Pop!_OS, NixOS, CentOS). Linux is the kernel, and disros add stuff to make a functional operating system.
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- randkyp 2y ago
  It's a trademark thing; there are some prerequisites and manual approval involved before you get to officially name your distro "[Distro Name] Linux". https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/the-linux-mark https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/the-linux-mark
  - kragen 2y ago
    that's not much of an excuse for pretending to have written an os; the only real requirement in https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/sublicense-agreement https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/sublicense-agreement is that you acknowledge that linus torvalds owns the linux trademark
- gertop 2y ago
  ChromeOS SteamOS PopOS ElementaryOS EndeavourOS ZorinOS CentOS SerpentOS Cosplayers, all of them!
  - written-beyond 2y ago
    MacOS
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    - dpassens 2y ago
      MacOS is not a Linux distribution, though.
      - Vinnl 2y ago
        Well why are they calling it an OS then!
        samstave 2y ago
        Because at Apple, everyone was under the Ontological Supposition that Jobs was the second coming.
        yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
        Because it is one? Linux distros are a subset of OSs.
    - kragen 2y ago
      macos is an actual operating system, a variant of mach
      - nequo 2y ago
        It is true that macOS is a bad example here because it is not using a Linux kernel. But Apple also names operating systems that use the same kernel different "OSes": iOS and iPadOS share a kernel with macOS, and for all I can tell, so do watchOS and tvOS. An operating system consists of both a kernel and a userland. The Linux kernel by itself does not make an OS. I think this makes it legitimate to call CentOS, NixOS, SerpentOS, iOS, watchOS, etc., OSes.
- HeckFeck 2y ago
  I'd like to interject for a moment...
  - exe34 2y ago
    I love that you don't even need to write the rest of the comment! I bet even LLMs know where you were going :-)

I'm pretty sure it is a Linux distro, if slightly unusual userspace.

kragen 2y ago

why are they calling it an os then? cosplaying arnold kling?

akovaski 2y ago
Its fairly common to refer to Linux distros as an OS, or even include OS in the distro name (Pop!_OS, NixOS, CentOS). Linux is the kernel, and disros add stuff to make a functional operating system.
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  [deleted]
randkyp 2y ago
It's a trademark thing; there are some prerequisites and manual approval involved before you get to officially name your distro "[Distro Name] Linux". https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/the-linux-mark https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/the-linux-mark
- kragen 2y ago
  that's not much of an excuse for pretending to have written an os; the only real requirement in https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/sublicense-agreement https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/sublicense-agreement is that you acknowledge that linus torvalds owns the linux trademark
gertop 2y ago
ChromeOS SteamOS PopOS ElementaryOS EndeavourOS ZorinOS CentOS SerpentOS Cosplayers, all of them!
- written-beyond 2y ago
  MacOS
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    [deleted]
  - dpassens 2y ago
    MacOS is not a Linux distribution, though.
    - Vinnl 2y ago
      Well why are they calling it an OS then!
      - samstave 2y ago
        Because at Apple, everyone was under the Ontological Supposition that Jobs was the second coming.
      - yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
        Because it is one? Linux distros are a subset of OSs.
  - kragen 2y ago
    macos is an actual operating system, a variant of mach
    - nequo 2y ago
      It is true that macOS is a bad example here because it is not using a Linux kernel. But Apple also names operating systems that use the same kernel different "OSes": iOS and iPadOS share a kernel with macOS, and for all I can tell, so do watchOS and tvOS. An operating system consists of both a kernel and a userland. The Linux kernel by itself does not make an OS. I think this makes it legitimate to call CentOS, NixOS, SerpentOS, iOS, watchOS, etc., OSes.
HeckFeck 2y ago
I'd like to interject for a moment...
- exe34 2y ago
  I love that you don't even need to write the rest of the comment! I bet even LLMs know where you were going :-)