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pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 week agoUnder semantic versioning everything after vista has been in essence a new version of vista.
okay but using that logic everything running linux kernel v5 is the same… fedora, ubuntu, rhel are in essence just a reskin of slackware
an OS is not semantically versioned as a whole because an OS is more than just the kernel
mholiv@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I mean they are all literally the same operating system yah! They all use the same kernel APIs.
The main difference is package management.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 week ago
an operating system is far more than just the kernel
mholiv@lemmy.world 1 week ago
But it literally is the same. The only difference is the user space. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD shows this. Different operating system same user space.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 week ago
an operating system is comprised of the kernel, as well as system libraries and system utilities… user space is irrelevant to the classification of what is and isn’t an operating system: the concept of user space doesn’t even exist in some operating systems