If we don’t want to go just off the pedantics of language though, then here’s the thing: it was forked a very long time ago, and both have diverged significantly, I think. It’s a bit like saying Blink (the rendering engine of Chromium) is WebKit; sure, Blink is a fork of WebKit, but the two are very different now.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I mean... obviously 8086 "x86" is more limited than modern x86. So obviously there will be reduced features and divergence.

And by your logic, because it diverged 25 years ago... modern linux is...no longer linux.

If you want a valid argument, its not GNU/linux since it doesnt use GNU tools...

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To clarify, what I mean is WebKit continued while Blink became its own thing. Factually, Blink is not WebKit anymore.

Replace “WebKit” with Linux and Blink with ELKS.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

And webkit is a fork of khtml.

Noone is arguing forks are "their own thing" but we can all agree they are all derived from the same base and have diverged from factors such as solviing different problems or simply different developer methodology.

They're is no straight line. There are hundreds of linux kernel offshoots. Some are more tightly coupled with the main, some are highly specific to a single cpu architecture.