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Why do we refer to a userspace infrastructure/UI API as an OS? Are KDE and GNOME OSes now?
Thats right, linux kernel is the whole operating system, and it is being replaced here now. And that is THE news in whole article.
First time for long time a article really means "new OS" when they write so.
And yet some idiots want to come and say that things aint so that OS is something else than Linux Kernel.
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Sentient plasmoids are a gas.
What is an OS? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why do we refer to a userspace infrastructure/UI API as an OS? Are KDE and GNOME OSes now?
Re:What is an OS? (Score:4, Informative)
Re: What is an OS? (Score:1)
Thats right, linux kernel is the whole operating system, and it is being replaced here now. And that is THE news in whole article.
First time for long time a article really means "new OS" when they write so.
And yet some idiots want to come and say that things aint so that OS is something else than Linux Kernel.