On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Mark Bidewell <mbidewel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No one said that stuff should change "unexpectedly" (and that's not
> what currently happens either).
> Actually its the opposite you want to consider the "whole picture"
> when doing changes and not think
> of independent pieces stuck together. That's why the "lets build some
> core platform and put stuff on top
> of it" is flawed.
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Honestly, I keep seeing this argument in this thread, but it doesn't square
with reality. The concept of an OS and all of its apps as a monolithic
distribution with a single release schedule is unique to Linux. Every other
major OS (with the exception perhaps of Windows) strictly differentiates
between core OS and apps.
Splitting apps and OS makes sense. But the "OS" is more then just the
kernel and a few low level libraries.
The OS (without apps) goes up to X/wayland and the desktop environment.