• Little1Lost
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    191 year ago

    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!

    But seriously: another comment here points out some tool

        • gullible
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          291 year ago

          I’ve noticed that over the top satire tends to be taken entirely at face value on lemmy. Doesn’t mean I’ll ever stop posting it, but I have noticed it. Also, demographics run much younger than most seem to believe.

          • @Offlein
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            91 year ago

            I’ve noticed this too, and I imagine it must be a side effect of Lemmy’s largest value prop having an outsized appeal to autistic people.

          • Cosmic Cleric
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            31 year ago

            I’ve noticed that over the top satire tends to be taken entirely at face value on lemmy

            And sometimes it’s taken as both, to be laughed at, and commented on.

            • gullible
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              31 year ago

              See, that makes perfect sense to me. Satire is meant to be taken as a talking point in the overwhelming majority of cases. I’m happy when the message I put out is extrapolated on, but upset when the conversation immediately dies at “no, that’s a silly interpretation.”

            • @Sanctus
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              91 year ago

              Don’t be so naive, you’re allowed to stay after all.

        • sab
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          141 year ago

          This copypasta has done so much more to inform people about GNU than any somewhat reasonable piece of writing could ever have done.

              • @excitingburp
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                51 year ago

                “Use the force Spork” ~ Gandalf

            • @[email protected]
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              1 year ago

              You know I thought it was copypasta but thought maybe it was rude to say it (if it wasn’t). I must be delirious after making my 2am chili. I need to take a refreshing shower with icesoap.

    • Cosmic Cleric
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      31 year ago

      TL;DR: Linux is just the engine, GNU/Linux is the whole car.