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SoftwareMaven on July 26, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Emacs and Vim

You have heard of Chromebooks, right? It wouldn't be a far stretch to imagine a developer laptop where Emacs was the entire interface.

rthomas6 on July 26, 2014 [–]

Chrome OS runs on a Linux kernel. Linux is the core OS for Chromebooks. Similarly, an "Emacs OS" would need a real OS underneath it.

tuhdo on July 30, 2014 | [–]

Emeacs is an OS. It just needs its own kernel.

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