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Re:If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least... by tremon on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:39AM (#39409790)
application /= software. You're moving the (extremely ill-defined) goalposts. Next you'll be arguing that device drivers or the Linux VFS layer aren't "software".
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Re:If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least... by pjmlp on Saturday February 17, 2024 @10:04AM (#39410047)
The goal hasn't moved, we are talking about ABI compatibility for a full operating system across multiple decades and generations of operating systems releases, without requiring building those applications from source.

Not a kernel booting directly into an application doing straight syscalls.

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