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morshu9001yesterday at 5:56 PM1 replyview on HN

There's free choice for those OSes to use different kernels, but they don't, they all use the same Linux (rather than say BSD). There's a lot of advantage in getting aligned on things, even though anyone can choose not to.


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breezykoiyesterday at 6:10 PM

It is true that Linux-based distributions have this thing in common: the Linux kernel. There have been some GNU/Hurd variants though...