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0 pointszokier5y ago0 comments

Linux is not an operating system or a platform, it's a kernel. Ubuntu, RHEL, Suse etc are operating systems, but more importantly they are separate independent operating systems. Their interoperability pretty much starts and ends with POSIX, everything else being more of a happy coincidence. And many of those major Linux-based OSs have strong vendor behind them.

Same way you don't expect cohesiveness between macOS and Windows, I think it is bit unreasonable to expect cohesiveness between RHEL and Ubuntu or whatever.

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srtjstjsj5y ago· 2 in thread

POSIX had a patch update 3 years ago, a minor update 12 years ago, and a major update 19 years ago.

That's the problem.

The desktop distros could and should have done a lot better to coordinate on fundamentals of user experience in the age of the open/hostile Internet and frequently updated software.

viraptor5y ago

POSIX does not know much about desktops really. If you want coordination in fundamentals of desktops, look at Freedesktop specs https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/

srtjstjsj5y ago

Thanks for the referral!

Unfortunately the website isn't loading for me. Wikipedia shows their projects seem to be focused on lower level graphics/UI issues, but not app packaging and security issues that have become very important in past 10 years.

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