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Re:The Road to Luna by acqq on Sunday August 18, 2013 @02:05PM (#6233517)
They use it like OSX and iOS which rightly have OS in their name: both are the new and original operating systems. Debian, Ubuntu rightly don't have OS in their own names. Elementary shouldn't too.
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Re:The Road to Luna by arjie on Sunday August 18, 2013 @04:15PM (#6234035)
Poor choice of examples, mate. From the respective home pages:

1. "Ubuntu is the world’s favourite free operating system" - ubuntu.com

2. "Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run." - debian.org

Then you have CentOS and their ilk. But that whole argument is irrelevant: take a step back and look at what you're arguing about. It is such a petty argument. I feel like I'm living in a crazy house where trivial things are important.

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Re:The Road to Luna by neeee on Sunday August 18, 2013 @05:21PM (#6234288)
OS X is a distribution of Darwin. iOS is derived from it.
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