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• mholiv@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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    • mholiv@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • pupbiru@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But the common understanding is a bit different than yours.

        the common understanding is that android is a different operating system to ubuntu, and macos is a different operating system to openbsd

        Would Debian GNU/kFreeBSD be 50% Linux, 50% FreeBSD under your definition even though it has no Linux code?

        it is what it is: a completely different thing… BSD system tools with a linux kernel

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