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Re:Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to... by randomdata on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @09:41AM (#33801356)
Linux is just a kernel (and only a Unix-like kernel at that), not an operating system. You're probably thinking of the GNU/Linux operation system, but then GNU is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix. Android replaces the GNU part, but maintains the Linux kernel (albeit with some patches).
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Re:Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to... by pavlov on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @10:56AM (#33802529)
Yeah, that's the point. Symbian was built from scratch for mobile devices, kernel and everything on top. Anything Linux-based isn't.
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Re:Windows is the strangest, or hardest, operating system to... by randomdata on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @11:35AM (#33803229)
While both written from scratch at some point in history, the trouble is that Linux is the newer one. Symbian is rebranded EPOC, which is older than Linux. While the BSDs descend from Unix, Linux does not. It started from scratch.
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