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moosedks · Nov 25, 2013

run crossover in wine.

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BigMac · Nov 25, 2013

SixSixSevenSeven said: ↑

Linux itself is what is known as a kernel. A kernel is pretty much the very core of the operating system, most important part, a good car analogue would probably be the chassis.

The kernel in windows NT, 2000, XP, vista, 7, 8, RT, all editions of windows server and windows phone 8 (but not phone 7 or windows mobile) happens to be Windows NT. OSX and iOS use the XNU kernel which is a horrible bastardisation of the BSD kernel and mach kernel with some other bits thrown in for good measure. Android also uses the linux kernel actually, but blocks access to any linux features to the end user (although root your phone, install busybox and a terminal app, you can then use a linux shell quite effectively on android).

Regardless. Its linux we care about, not anything else right now.

Linux is free to download, use, modify and redistribute etc etc. Linux on its own isnt entirely useful. Canonical are the company behind ubuntu, what they do is take the linux kernel, a selection of drivers for USB devices etc, a lovely desktop (linux doesnt have a desktop normally, actually I hate ubuntu's interface personally) and some other bits of software, stick it all together on one DVD and release it as a "linux distribution". Other groups also do the same and release different distro's, my favourite is actually bodhi which itself is essentially ubuntu with a different desktop and loads of the software uninstalled leaving me with a blank slate. My uni use CentOS which is yet another distro. The raspberry pi uses debian (ubuntu actually bases their work from debian rather than starting with a clean slate). Slackware, gentoo and arch are other popular options.
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Ok, thanks for clearing that up!

dezinto · May 28, 2018

Let me tell my story. I have been using Manjaro Linux the whole year, do my job and home things only on Linux. And the only reason I have a Windows in dualboot is - BeamNG. I understand and sorry that can only dream of linux port...

JonasTMT · May 28, 2018

Let this thread die. Only revive it if you add something useful, not your story. Sorry if it sounds rude.

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