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Linux didn't aim to be an OS in the consumer sense (it is entirely an OS in an academic sense - in scientific literature OS == kernel, nothing else).The "consum
by jcelerier 9mo ago
Linux didn't aim to be an OS in the consumer sense (it is entirely an OS in an academic sense - in scientific literature OS == kernel, nothing else).The "consumer" OS is GNU/Linux or Android/Linux.
- i80and 9mo agoThere really isn't that much GNU on a modern Linux system, proportionately.
- dontlaugh 9mo agoExactly, Gnome/Linux or KDE/Linux would make a lot more sense.
- graemep 9mo agoExcept that it can be both and more: you can have Gnome, KDE, and other DEs and libraries installed and use app based on all of them simultaneously.
- dontlaugh 9mo agoSure, although every distro has a default. systemd/Linux maybe? Lots of things are more significant than GNU, either way.
- pndy 9mo agoBoth are being baked https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gnomeos https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=gnomeos https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kdelinux https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kdelinux The question is if either will catch any interest and if so, what will happen to regular distributions.
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- delta_p_delta_x 9mo ago> it is entirely an OS in an academic sense - in scientific literature OS == kernel, nothing else No, the academic literature makes the difference between the kernel and the OS as a whole. The OS is meant to provide hardware abstractions to both developers and the user. The Linux world shrugged and said 'okay, this is just the kernel for us, everyone else be damned'. In this view Linux is the complete outlier, because every other commercial OS comes with a full suite of user-mode libraries and applications.