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I really hate that people call Linux distributions 'X OS' and you get sites like this which at no point clarify where it is actually a distro or an entirely new OS.

It is confusing and somewhat disrespectful towards Linux.

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Linux is just an implementation detail; it's a more accurate description to call it a GNU/Linux system, yes, but most Linux distros could drop in one of the BSDs or illumos as their base layer and from a user perspective nothing would change.

That depends how much the applications depend on specific syscalls, file locations or DBUS based IPC.

It is just the assertion that UNIX wars got replaced with Linux distribution wars.

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