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I was watching friends, and this scene came on. Instantly made me think of GNU plus Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux all the way. Stallman made GNU look like a bunch of weirdos to me.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are mostly weirdos, and Stallman surely is one.

But people who are right early are generally weirdos.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

People who are early are generally weirdos regardless of how right they are. He happened to be though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Remember the Stallman quote about GNU plus Linux? Started with, "I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux...."

Apparently, Stallman never said that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux doesn't require gnu though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When people talk about Linux, they are generally referring to both though (yes, I know there are exceptions to this). Android uses the Linux kernel, but no one calls it "Linux".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are people that don’t refer to Android as Linux?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So...maybe we should have a way to differentiate Android from what people mean when they talk about Linux distros. I propose GNU/Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do, because it is. OSX is also a *BSD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's fair, but most people don't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago