On: Programmers Survey

[teoryn]

How is Ubuntu not an operating system?

[mtogo → teoryn]

It's a software distribution. It includes GNU/Linux, which is an operating system, but Ubuntu itself is not an operating system.

[sologoub → teoryn]

It's a flavor of Linux?

This survey seems half-assed....

[irahul → sologoub]

> It's a flavor of Linux?

That doesn't disqualify it from being an operating system.

[alnayyir → irahul]

It's not an operating system, it's a distribution of software other people wrote that comprises an operating system.

It's not even an original distribution of Linux at that, it's just downstream Debian plus some crappy GUI apps.

--- Ubuntu user

[sologoub → alnayyir]

Yup, it's a Debian derivative, but I like how light weight it was and how easy it is to get it going from the liveCD.

I'm still on the last LTS, so haven't experienced the non-Gnome version yet.

[alnayyir → sologoub]

You think Ubuntu is light-weight?

...what?

[sp332 → alnayyir]

It doesn't use much disk, CPU, or brainpower.

[SkyMarshal → teoryn]

For the purposes of the survey, they either need to list 'GNU/Linux', or if not that then every major distro of GNU/Linux plus an 'Other Linux' option. Otherwise their results will be filled with inaccurate data. Hence OP's suspicion of satire.

[teoryn → SkyMarshal]

I fully agree it's satire or a really bad survey, but that doesn't disqualify Ubuntu from being an operating system.