Comment by matheusmoreira

It's certainly what I had in mind when I started the project. Writing a full Lisp operating system is extremely hard, better to take advantage of Linux and its drivers so as to avoid spending an entire lifetime recreating them.

It's my understanding that a true Lisp machine would have hardware support for Lisp abstractions at the instruction set level, so I don't think the concept would apply to lone. I would be seriously honored if people considered it one though, even if only in spirit.