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mholiv@lemmy.world 1 week agoI mean they are all literally the same operating system yah! They all use the same kernel APIs.
The main difference is package management.
Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
mholiv@lemmy.world 1 week agoI 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
mholiv@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If you define it that way you are right. Yah. But the common understanding is a bit different than yours.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
Really great read.
I urge you to take a look at www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ It’s the exact same utilities and everything but a completely different kernel. It really highlights the difference here. How would your definition avoid d for this?
Would Debian GNU/kFreeBSD be 50% Linux, 50% FreeBSD under your definition even though it has no Linux code? It has all the system libraries and system utilities that you associate with Linux.