GNU-Linux

Ya'll need God.

Posting this from TempleOS

wow, I could read and entire book of this. It's a new genre of erotica I think. Very high quality

Actually, it's GNU/unkempt, bearded man

It's systemd+gnu+linux these days

A typical ActivityPub+Lemmy post.

It would seem that GNU/Linux or Linux (whatever the user-accessing operating system is called) is the only OS that must mention its kernel. No one calls Windows the NT operating system, nor does anyone call Mac OS the Darwin operating system. So why should Linux be the exception?

When I think of GNU, I think of a project that had a very particular goal in mind: build an operating system that replaces Unix with entirely free software. The project got nearly all the way there, but before they got a usable kernel working, Torvalds licensed his kernel with the GPL. With the Linux kernel combined with GNU, we have an OS the GNU project set out to create. So why should Torvalds get all the credit? Without calling the OS GNU, most people don't even know how or why it came to be.

I could see a valid argument to just simply call the OS GNU. It was the name the original team gave the project to have a fully functional OS made with entirely free software. True, Torvalds didn't write Linux for GNU, but neither did the X Window System. A Kernel is essential for operation though, so I can see why the name GNU/Linux was proposed.

What's the deal with Alpine not using GNU? Is it a technical or ideological thing? Or is it another "because we can" type distro?

Hnng yeah thats right womansplain to me, whip out those big beautiful FACTS and correct me till I BLEED

This is fucking gold

Why are yall so mad about GNU and Free Software movement that it has started? Do you prefer to go to the old times? Apple microsoft fanboys?

Doing an entire OS and library to not use GNU it's like Apple doing the LLVM to not having to use the GCC. Instead you could be helping in the free software movement and development, but you prefer to go into a GNU vs. Linux fight.

The war should be all the free software movement vs the companies fake open source shit.

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The alternatives to the GNU tools are largely permissively licensed, yeah? What could possibly go wrong with that..

Can someone explain to me why people get upset about it being referred to as gnu+Linux or gnu/Linux? I'm not the most techy person, so maybe I'm missing something obvious, but like, objectively, isn't it just as much gnu code as Linux?

Again, not super techy, so please explain it to me like I'm the average Facebook aunt.