Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
mholiv@lemmy.world 5 days agoBut it literally is the same. The only difference is the user space. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD shows this. Different operating system same user space.
Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
mholiv@lemmy.world 5 days agoBut 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 5 days 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 5 days 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.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 5 days ago
the common understanding is that android is a different operating system to ubuntu, and macos is a different operating system to openbsd
it is what it is: a completely different thing… BSD system tools with a linux kernel
mholiv@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You’re gunna do you and I respect that. But the first line from the page is
It is literally GNU userland using the GNU C library on top of FreeBSD’s kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set
You can say is BSD system tools with a Linux kernel but you would be evidently and clearly wrong.
Anyways. I wish you well. Best of luck.