• Pup Biru
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    03 months ago

    Under semantic versioning everything after vista has been in essence a new version of vista.

    okay but using that logic everything running linux kernel v5 is the same… fedora, ubuntu, rhel are in essence just a reskin of slackware

    an OS is not semantically versioned as a whole because an OS is more than just the kernel

    • @mholiv@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I mean they are all literally the same operating system yah! They all use the same kernel APIs.

      The logical conclusion is that from an operating system they are all basicly the same.

      The main difference is the user space. The package management and defaults.

      Look at Debian GNU/kFreeBSD it’s a whole different operating system with the Debian user space. It’s cool stuff and really highlights the difference between operating system and user space.