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Re:My Watch Runs GNU/Linux by Koshkin on Friday January 06, 2017 @12:13PM (#13338046)
Despite downvotes, this, admittedly sarcastic, question makes perfect sense. The name of a "distribution" is the name of the OS. It may not even be a "distribution", like Android. Nobody calls Android "Linux".
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Re:My Watch Runs GNU/Linux by nattmat on Friday January 06, 2017 @08:22PM (#13341820)
Linux is the operating system, the distribution is only a collection of apps running on top of the operating system. Ubuntu does not handle stuff like memory allocation or scheduling.
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Re:My Watch Runs GNU/Linux by teddyh on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:35AM (#13344049)
An operating system is a different concept from a kernel. What you are describing is a kernel, not an operating system.
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