Price of Pinephone is going to increase by $100?
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(12-03-2020, 02:30 PM)marcih Wrote: Speaking of the GNU/Linux nomenclature, should we call Mac OS X GNU/XNU/Darwin/macOS since it comes with GNU Nano and bash (I actually think it's zsh since recently)? Angel
While this probably isn't the place to discuss this (and I'll take the blame for bringing it up in the first place), I do want to point out that GNU's claim is of building the coreutils and multiple other supporting utilities "that make up an operating system", while Linux provides only the kernel. In macOS, the XNU kernel is complemented by a large layer of mostly Apple-made tools - even the standard POSIX utilities are non-GNU. A single text editor (and perhaps shell) don't make up an operating system.

You could perhaps call it XNU/Darwin (or Darwin/XNU), but since Apple, who is developing both XNU and Darwin, themselves chose to market it as macOS, there isn't really a point to changing their own nomenclature.

Quote:AOSP can also be considered "Linux", so in this instance calling it "non-AOSP FOSS phone" really is the correct term if you're pedantic. Wink
Right, you're definitely correct there.


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RE: Price of Pinephone is going to increase by $100? - by displacefish - 12-04-2020, 04:00 AM

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