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ianlevesque on July 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Booting a 486 from floppy with the most up-to-date...

Yeah slightly tangential but I wonder if some of the alternative OSes (looking at you Haiku) could just use Linux as the kernel for portability.

boogies on July 6, 2020 [–]

That would be great if people could admit that the kernel isn't the operating system.

yjftsjthsd-h on July 7, 2020 | [–]

Of course the kernel isn't the OS, but it's a big chunk of it, and defines building blocks (and constraints) that the upper layers use.

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