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Winbuntu – Blurring the Lines Between Linux and Windows

19 pointsby hackeradam17almost 9 years ago

2 comments

yellowapplealmost 9 years ago
I feel like it&#x27;s disingenuous to tack the &quot;Linux&quot; label on this when this particular Windows subsystem isn&#x27;t using any Linux code (last I checked; maybe Windows is suddenly subject to the GPL and I just haven&#x27;t noticed yet?). It&#x27;s really the GNU userland - albeit compiled against Linux&#x27;s API&#x2F;ABI (IIRC) - running on Windows using a special compatibility layer, kind of like an inverse Wine (Water?). Since Linux itself isn&#x27;t involved (again: unless Windows is now subject to the GPL), the more apt title here would be &quot;Blurring the Lines Between GNU and Windows&quot;.<p>I tend to disagree with the hard-and-fast insistence on the use of &quot;GNU&#x2F;Linux&quot; v. &quot;Linux&quot; (since not every &quot;Linux&quot; is a &quot;GNU&#x2F;Linux&quot;), but this is one of the few cases where the &quot;GNU&quot; qualifier is undoubtedly warranted.
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teh_klevalmost 9 years ago
Sorry to be such a curmudgeon, but I&#x27;m very weary of the &quot;awesome&quot; thing and self-describing your project as such lessens the chance I&#x27;m going to look at it. Could I appeal to your finest nature and ask you to change the title? Seriously, just usinig &quot;Blurring the Lines Between Linux and Windows with Winbuntu&quot; would have been perfectly fine (and would comply with the &quot;don&#x27;t editorialise titles&quot; rules [0]).<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>
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