Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC

Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by pxc on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @10:37AM (#46046793)

> The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking.

What GNU software is actually being removed from any distro?

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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by Max_Limelihood on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @11:00PM (#46054059)

Ubuntu replaced their core userland utils with uutils, so the bulk of it. I’m guessing most other distros will follow suit.

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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by pxc on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:42PM (#46064959)

Huh. I didn't know Ubuntu had replaced GNU coreutils. I'm not sure that alone counts as "the bulk of it", but it's definitely very significant.

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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by surajrmal on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:05AM (#46058053)

pipewire, systemd, Wayland, etc. none of that is produced or maintained by GNU.

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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by pxc on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:41PM (#46064947)

ALSA, sysvinit, and Xorg weren't GNU projects, either.

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