• LeFantome@programming.dev
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    15 hours ago

    GNU is not even a requirement.

    Look at Void Linux. Look at Alpine Linux. Look at Chimera Linux.

    MUSL instead of Glibc. Clang instead of GCC. Alternative userlands. More and more Linux distros arrive with these traits everyday (many more than I listed).

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      5 hours ago

      TBF, linux is not a requirement either. You can run pretty much all the same software on BSD as you would on a typical linux system.

      I think the only thing present in all *nix distributions is Xorg, so what you call linux is actually X11/Linux, or as I’ve taken to calling it, X11+Linux…