Could you elaborate on the some of the benefits of having a dedicated OS for Node projects? I'm confused by the website

Linux Kernel NodeOS is a full OS built on top of the Linux kernel

As are many other operating systems...

NodeJS Runtime Node is the primary runtime — no bash here

NPM Packages NodeOS uses NPM as its primary package manager

You can change both of these on other OSes, no? Also, are these really large pain points?

Hosted on Github Open and easy to contribute to — pull request friendly

Not really a feature