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sauravc on Feb 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’

So is Ubuntu a new OS since it has it's own window manager?

gnaffle on Feb 15, 2012 [–]

No, not necessarily, but do you think Android or PalmOS both fit the description "a warmed-over Linux distro"? The fact that they both run Linux is not what makes any of them unique or interesting.

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