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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by jcelerier on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:24AM (#25057177)
> What is a distribution if not a collection of software that obey the same standard?

why would that definition make any sense ?

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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by gspr on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:49AM (#25057870)
For those of you that don't like that terminology: let's just use the words that Debian itself uses, namely "the universal operating system". What is an operating system if not a collection of software that follow a standard so as to interoperate?
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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by jcelerier on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @08:39AM (#25058272)
> What is an operating system if not a collection of software that follow a standard so as to interoperate?

I have never heard that definition of an operating system, but it seems that every university & place has its own so we're all speaking different languages anyways when using that word :-)

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