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Re:Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market by coldtea on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @07:13AM (#36770513)
Why, if I run with musl and MIT/Apache userland, eg. rust replacements for coreutils, it's not Linux?
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Re:Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market by Zambyte on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @07:14AM (#36770523)
That doesn't make up half of the desktop marketshare of Linux-based operating systems.
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Re:Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market by coldtea on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @07:18AM (#36770560)
No, but "so, it's not necessarily GNU" was the point.

It's basically "Linux proper" (whether GNU or musl and whatever the breakdown) vs "Linux that's just a kernel+backend for Google's ChromeOS GUI". Rare or not, the exotic combination I mentioned would still qualify.

Besides, I'm pretty sure ChromeOS still has the whole GNU userland installed.

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