[rthomas6]

Well, yes. That's what makes Unix OSes so great. Programs all the way down to the command line are separate from the OS. Modules and drivers are also semantically separate from the core.

[Dewie]

So how would you envision that the Emacs OS should be structured/used?

[rthomas6]

Something like this:

  sudo aptitude purge emacs
  sudo apt-get install vim gvim
  gvim

Edit: Clearly I'm joking. If you wanted a serious answer, Emacs is just a large, easily extensible program. It's not really an OS. That's like saying Google Chrome (contains a package manager, web browser, text editor, scripting language, and much more) is an OS.

[SoftwareMaven]

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]

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]

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