Comment The tendency of Linux developers to reinvent wheels is no secret. It's not so much the elephant in the room, as the entire jet-propelled guided ark ship full of every known and unknown member of the Proboscidea from Ambelodon to Stegodon via deinotheres, elephants, mammoths and other mastodons.

Indeed, Linux itself, and the GNU tools they're built from, are FOSS recreations of exiting proprietary tools. But despite over a third of a century of continuous development, there's only one Linux – and there are very few alternatives to the GNU tools, either. Some areas manage to keep it together.

Some, however, fail quite spectacularly. Let's look at what in the eyes of the Reg FOSS desk is one of the more egregious examples: perhaps the most visible part of any end-user OS – the deskt

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