What are you talking about? Linux has virtually no backwards compatibility at all. Maybe one or two years max. The kernel is fine. The weak point is glibc.

You literally need to recompile applications constantly to stay compatible with glibc. Otherwise they just don’t work.

The good news is that distros are constantly providing freshly compiled versions of open source applications.

The bad news is that actual binary backwards compatibility is non existent. Try running a binary compiled in 2005 on modern Linux. You’ll just get a ton of glibc errors.

Windows lets you run applications compiled in 1995 on modern desktops.

Linux is great and it’s what I use. But we can’t claim backwards compatibility as a strength. Maybe a binary compiled today with musl might run in 2036 but musl targeting is quite rare.

It’s a major hacker community centric event. The biggest in Europe. It could be that the community just likes it. 🤷‍♀️

Same. I have been using Kagi since before they added AI features. I didn’t use them then and I don’t use them now. The price is the same.

By far the best search engine in my book. They even have a fediverse search mode.

Prusa printers are MUCH better than Ender 3s just FYI. Not even in the same class. If you end up getting a modern prusa you’ll get something like the Bamboo but more community driven and with real technical support.

I’d recommend giving Niri a shot. It works quite well for me.

Why would you install Brave when he liked chrome? You could have gone with any other non crypto bro non ad company chrome fork.

Basic Chromium would have been better.

Why would you choose the crypto bro ad company browser out of all the chrome spinoffs?

Why not use any of the others?

gnu/linux user space phones please hurry!

Yes you can.

Classic European flavored racism. Are you aware that you are promoting racism or not? I think mindfulness is key here. People should consider their own internal biases and adjust to help make a better world.

Strong recommend for learning the swipe motions. It takes a few min to learn but it’s free real-estate after that. And it’s faster. At least for me.

And the easy retort to that is that they don’t apply Chinese censorship globally. Only in China. Regional laws only apply regionally.

The point is, that the answer is 0% by any reasonable metric. I don’t think any more is to be gained here given the question dodge.

So I will say good bye and best of luck again.

Ok. I have one question then. I think we can come to a clear resolution with it.

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, what percentage is it Linux?

It includes 100% the apps, system tools, GUIs, and libraries that you associate with Linux. It also has 0 lines of Linux code in it.

If you can justify that it is above >0% Linux I will use your definition of operating system going forward.

But we can agree that there are upper and lower limits though. And I believe that we can now agree that system utilities and system libraries are outside of that limit. Just because the edge are fuzzy, don’t mean we can’t come to any conclusions at all.

Any now stepping way way back. I think we can now agree that Fedora, Ubuntu and other distros run the same operating system. That operating system being Linux.

That’s ok! I was just trying to help you see the difference. You do now. It’s a win/win. There was a reason why I kept on brining up Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. It really highlights the difference.

You’re gunna do you and use your own definitions and I respect that. But the first line from the page is

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the GNU C library on top of FreeBSD’s kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set.

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 Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is BSD system tools with a Linux kernel but you would be evidently and clearly wrong.

Anyways. I wish you well. Best of luck.

If you define it that way you are right. Yah. But the common understanding is a bit different than yours.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system

Really great read.

I urge you to take a look at https://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 account 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.

But it literally is the same. The only difference is the user space. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD shows this. Different operating system same user space.

Take a look at Wikipedia for more info.

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems schedule tasks for efficient use of the system and may also include accounting software for cost allocation of processor time, mass storage, peripherals, and other resources.

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.