"Linux is not fragmented; it's united"

From	Yrrah <Yrrah-acf@acf.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.freeware
Subject	"Linux is not fragmented; it's united"
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Message-ID	<a5kcabpbcgpfb63qlvm7047fsip0uo19h8@net.com> (permalink)
Date	2016-01-25 17:53 +0100

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"One of the things that some people say about the Linux platform is
that it's fragmented (...)."
Using the term fragmented to describe Linux is not correct. If
anything, Linux is one of the most cohesive platforms available right
now and that's actually really easy to prove. The biggest problem
Linux has seems to be the large number of distributions available, but
that's only an illusion.
For the most part, there are only a few big ones, and the rest are
pretty much filling various niches.(...) They all share the same core,
the Linux kernel.
This is the backbone of the operating system and its single piece of
code. The illusion of fragmentation is also given by the many desktop
environments and window managers available right now, but that's also
related to user preferences, more than anything else.
The glue that keeps all the Linux platform together is something that
prevents the very idea of fragmentation, the GPL license.(...)
Linux is not fragmented at all. It's a solid block of code that moves
in all directions and a single direction at the same time. This is the
reason for its security and the huge diversity it is capable of.
<http://news.softpedia.com/news/saying-linux-is-fragmented-is-wrong-this-is-why-499386.shtml>

Hear, hear!

Yrrah

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"Linux is not fragmented; it's united" Yrrah <Yrrah-acf@acf.invalid> - 2016-01-25 17:53 +0100
  Re: "Linux is not fragmented; it's united" Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-01-25 09:15 -0800
    Re: "Linux is not fragmented; it's united" mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2016-01-25 12:26 -0800
      Re: "Linux is not fragmented; it's united" Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2016-01-25 12:57 -0800
      Re: "Linux is not fragmented; it's united" »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> - 2016-01-25 15:05 -0600
        Re: "Linux is not fragmented; it's united" Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions@gmail.com> - 2016-01-25 16:25 -0500
      Re: "Linux is not fragmented; it's united" Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2016-01-25 20:24 -0200
      Re: "Linux is not fragmented; it's united" Spamblk <ZapSpam@SpamMeNot.invalid> - 2016-01-26 13:49 +0000
        Re: "Linux is not fragmented; it's united" »Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> - 2016-01-26 09:10 -0600
          Re: "Linux is not fragmented; it's united" Spamblk <ZapSpam@SpamMeNot.invalid> - 2016-01-26 19:34 +0000
  Re: "Linux is not fragmented; it's united" Mark Warner <mhwarner.inhibitions@gmail.com> - 2016-01-25 16:28 -0500
  Re: "Linux is not fragmented; it's united" "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-01-26 22:05 +0800

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