• Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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    18 hours ago

    i certainly don’t agree that system utilities and libraries are outside of that limit and said as much when i commented on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD: its its own thing… its neither debian, nor freebsd. it is however based on both

    the gui is definitively part of the operating system - confirmed by that wikipedia page that you linked (though i’d say only in the case where the gui is heavily tied to the default configuration of the OS like windows, macos, android, etc), and that’s nowhere near the kernel

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      18 hours ago

      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.

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        17 hours ago

        i don’t think percentage is a useful distinction… how do you measure that? by lines of code? by behavioural traits? my point throughout this discussion is that it’s not as clean as any of that

        as i said: its its own thing… it is neither linux, debian, nor is it freebsd… in the same way that android is an operating system distinct from other flavours of linux

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          17 hours ago

          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.

          • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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            17 hours ago

            i didn’t dodge the question… i’m saying the question is rooted firmly in your definition and is therefore not something that i think is valid…. and your use of “reasonable” is just saying you think anyone that disagrees with you is unreasonable… charged end emotive: not intended to discuss, but to persuade regardless of truth