• dartanjinn@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    TL;DR: ChromeOS is Linux but it’s not Linux but it’s a Linux so count it as a Linux but not Linux. Half.

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      1 year ago

      I guess this is a situation where the proper name of GNU / Linux is useful

      Edit: Chrome OS is is a GNU/ Linux and a couple of “proper” Linuxes are not.

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        1 year ago

        As far as I know, ChromeOS is also GNU/Linux (It uses full glibc, includes gnu utils and bash), so not so much.

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          They mention this in the article.

          In fact, they never say it’s not Linux. The summary would be more like: “ChromeOS should be counted among desktop Linux, because it has the same basis as any other GNU/Linux distribution, unlike Android. Here are the dumb reasons I think people would argue against this.”

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          Such definitions are becoming more and more complicated. I think we should standardize a name for the family of systems we use, or it will become uglier and uglier.

          Recently, I had to write an academic work in the area, and an entire section was dedicated to explaining this controversy and defining what kind of system I was talking about, so that the work is reproducible.

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        You see sometimes Linux is not Linux and sometimes it is. Naturally, we can’t count non-Linux as Linux but sometimes we can count Linux as non-Linux.