The kernel is the OS though.
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whimsy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoTorvalds wrote the kernel, not the operating system. It’s a part of the GNU/Linux OS ;)
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
whimsy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Is it, though? I don’t know about you, but most (if not all) of my interactions with my computer are at levels above the kernel
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Then where do you draw the line?
The vast majority of people also don’t interact with the GNU tools at all, so GNU/Linux isn’t the OS either. KDE would be, or perhaps the distro itself. I’m not sure I’d call the OS GNU/Linux/Ubuntu/KDE. At that point might as well throw in firefox, for many it’s pretty much all the interaction they have with the computer.
Or what about the distros that don’t use the GNU coreutils? They are generally still called linux and still get to run apps made for linux, even with no traces of GNU.
whimsy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I made that comment in slight jest. But anyway using non GNU OS still is consistent with my viewpoint that you don’t operate the kernel per se. The kernel sits at a layer below what the user operates.
As for the argument of apps being made for Linux, it is nothing more than just a semantic shortcut to the common ground between all these independent OS
Tja@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
… or as I have taken recently to call it, GNU plus Linux.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
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