A distinction without a difference. The point of this subthread is that the term...

		sneak 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA A distinction without a difference. The point of this subthread is that the term Linux is overloaded to mean two things: a kernel and also an OS that has certain assumptions (usually glibc and some unix userspace stuff). The point being that “Linux Desktop” means something more than “runs the Linux kernel”.

There is not even one common "the Linux kernel".