OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution

Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by ndesaulniers on Sunday June 16, 2019 @01:50PM (#20196840)

Really great work by the OpenMandriva team. I've spoken to some of their contributors before and even looked into one of the bugs they reported. Now that I think about it, I need to send that patch for fixing asm goto detection in glib.

Android and ChromeOS are also built with Clang. I'm curious about the distinction of "first." Does anyone know the timelines here?

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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by oneplane on Sunday June 16, 2019 @02:06PM (#20196927)

Not sure how wide Apple has adopted it or how much of a 'distro' you could call their operating systems, but much is built using LLVM with clang where publicly visible.

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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by dnautics on Sunday June 16, 2019 @02:18PM (#20197007)

Also, to be pedantic, apple is a BSD, not a linux.

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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by meruru on Sunday June 16, 2019 @03:41PM (#20197469)

Mac OS is its own operating system with its own kernel. It's neither Linux nor BSD.

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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by dnautics on Sunday June 16, 2019 @03:43PM (#20197479)

oh good point, TIL only the posix and syscall layer is BSD. nonetheless it's not at all a linux.

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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by pjmlp on Sunday June 16, 2019 @06:03PM (#20198197)

If you want to see how much different they are, have a look at

"Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach"

https://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-Internals-Systems-Approach-ebo...

Since then, has macOS become even further away from BSD, with its own Network stack, XPC, SIP and many other architecture changes.

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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by mailslot on Sunday June 16, 2019 @06:06PM (#20198218)

It’s a certified UNIX, which Linux & BSD are clones of (UNIX).

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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by cat199 on Sunday June 16, 2019 @07:46PM (#20198660)

this is taking the post USL vs BSD legalized definition of unix, which, w/r/t history, is revisionist.

following the lineage and where active development happened at the time (80s/early 90s), one can easily make the case that BSD is unix.

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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by dTal on Sunday June 16, 2019 @04:37PM (#20197731)

To be pedantic, Apple is a company, not an OS :)

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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by tssva on Sunday June 16, 2019 @09:35PM (#20199134)

To be pedantic, the comment you replied to referred to apple which is neither a company nor an OS but a fruit.

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