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| From: | Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Cc: | Steven J Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012] | ||
| Date: | Tue, 08 May 2012 02:10:39 | ||
| Message-Id: | 4FA88049.6090806@cs.stonybrook.edu | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012] by Steven J Long |
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| 1 | On 05/07/12 21:40, Steven J Long wrote: |
| 2 | > "The future of GNOME is as a Linux based OS. It is harmful to pretend |
| 3 | > that you are writing the OS core to work on any number of different |
| 4 | > kernels, user space subsystem combinations, and core libraries.. |
| 5 | > Kernels just aren't that interesting. Linux isn't an OS. Now it is |
| 6 | > our job to try to build one - finally. Let's do it."[3] |
| 7 | |
| 8 | For what it is worth, the OS core is the kernel, libc and bootloader. |
| 9 | GNOME runs on top of that. |
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