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jcelerier on Feb 25, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux Problems on the Desktop (2018)

> Android meets the only definition of 'linux' that matters IMO: it runs on a linux kernel. That's linux, full stop.

So what do you think of WSL ? It has all the things of an Ubuntu, but it does not run a Linux kernel.

Octoth0rpe on Feb 25, 2019 [–]

I think it's misnamed. I'm not sure what I'd call it though. Gnu/Windows Subsystem? But yeah, linux to me is anything running a linux kernel.

I think the _real_ edge case that I'm not sure on are the l4 kernels that run linux kernels for drivers.

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