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"Today"= 18 Months Ago (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Unfortunately, it's true: Linux is woke. And DEI. And gay.

We need to get Elon Musk and the DOGE team on this, stat!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

What a legend. Had a similar rant to my Aunt a few months ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

TIL people still use twitter.

[–] [email protected] 273 points 2 days ago (26 children)

Just how fucking dense do you have to be in order to be surprised that a man who created one of the most popular operating systems on Earth, and then gave it away for free, might be a leftist?

[+] [email protected] -68 points 2 days ago (9 children)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never know wether to upvote or downvote this comment

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!