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Qubes OS Begins Commercialization and Community Funding Efforts

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129 points detaro | 1 comments | 30 Nov 16 10:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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reidrac ◴[30 Nov 16 13:50 UTC] No.13070609[source]▶
I find annoying when a project identifies itself as an "Operating System" that I didn't know about... until now, because I suspect that it may be a Linux distribution and not a new OS, but I can't tell from the main page.

I understand why (tying to avoid the "yet another Linux distro" stigma), but when you go to "What is Qubes OS?" in https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/ ; they fail to mention that is Linux based.

Well, to be fair this one has a FAQ entry: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/user-faq/#is-qubes-just-another... ; although they try to understate that they use Linux.

If they want me to trust them, they're doing it wrong.

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1. detaro ◴[30 Nov 16 14:10 UTC] No.13070797[source]▶
It's a bit weird that they don't mention Linux on that page at all, but I agree with them that labeling it as a "Linux distribution" isn't very useful. From a user perspective they could swap the Dom0 operating system, where most of the important bits happen, out with something else and ideally that wouldn't be an important change.

For the guests that actually run the software you use directly, they provide templates for multiple Linux distros (and don't have their own brand) and support Windows as well, so I don't think the application-level is seen as part of it. Whereas I'd see "provides a more or less curated selection of applications + configuration" as an important part of a Linux distro.

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