The defining characteristic of a distribution is that it is a Unix work-a-like. “Linux” isn’t the most important part of that term, “distribution” is. It may sound logical to most people to say that the linux kernel is the defining characteristic of a “Linux Distribution”, but I don’t think that is correct in reality. The more things shown, the more confusion ensues, especially when they can no longer see their “safe” Windows in the list.ĭid this guy (Renai LeMay, who wrote the linked article) even bother to read what Google was planning to build? Chrome OS sounds NOTHING like “Yet Another Linux Distro”. □ Besides, where did I say that the GRUB display was the kernel? That list is certainly evidence of the kernel. Maybe, the “Ubuntu” in my comment should have been a clue as to the distribution being used. I know Arch and Slack have a text boot, but those are aimed squarely at the geeks who like to tinker and not the average home PC user. In fact, graphical booting has been a included feature for many a distro for a good number of years now. Plus I don’t know which distro you’re using/used, but most desktop distros hide the output from the init scripts behind a graphical screen. It’s good to see that Ubuntu has limited the periodic file system check to the login display, instead of showing a scrolling display of text which will once again confuse the non-technical.Īgain, that’s not the kernel, that’s the init scripts, which are user space. Non-technical users should never see that. As soon as GRUB starts, you notice the Linux kernel because of the list.
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