For an ISO, "Live Mode" can be one of the most useful things.
Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released
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Re: Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released
#52I find it very hard to get excited about this shell-scripts-in-YAML-with-macros language:
https://github.com/serpent-os/recipes/blob/b269cef9b42645b89...
setup : |
%patch %(pkgdir)/enhance-config.patch
%patch %(pkgdir)/0001-Make-sway-stateless.patch
%meson -Ddefault_sysconfdir=%(vendordir)%(sysconfdir)
build : |
%meson_build
install : |
%meson_installRe: Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
macos is an actual operating system, a variant of mach
It is true that macOS is a bad example here because it is not using a Linux kernel. But Apple also names operating systems that use the same kernel different "OSes": iOS and iPadOS share a kernel with macOS, and for all I can tell, so do watchOS and tvOS. An operating system consists of both a kernel and a userland. The Linux kernel by itself does not make an OS. I think this makes it legitimate to call CentOS, NixOS…
> iOS and iPadOS share a kernel with macOS, and for all I can tell, so do watchOS and tvOS.
Even worse is that iPadOS and iOS are effectively the same operating system, one ships with a phone dialer and the other ships with UI tweaks for tablets. I would not be shocked if they are built from the same source tree.
Re: Serpent OS Pre-Alpha-0 released
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
why are they calling it an os then? cosplaying arnold kling?
It's a trademark thing; there are some prerequisites and manual approval involved before you get to officially name your distro "[Distro Name] Linux". https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/the-linux-mark
that's not much of an excuse for pretending to have written an os; the only real requirement in https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/sublicense-agreement is that you acknowledge that linus torvalds owns the linux trademark