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It's Linux, not GNU/Linux. The other problem is people don't consciously associate Emacs or GCC with GNU or the FSF, they're just tools on a machine.
by Delmania 10y ago
It's Linux, not GNU/Linux. The other problem is people don't consciously associate Emacs or GCC with GNU or the FSF, they're just tools on a machine.
- cyphar 10y agoIt is GNU/Linux. Claiming that Linux is the most important part of the system is rewriting history (the GNU project started almost a decade before Linux was created).
- jjawssd 10y agoGNU would have gone nowhere without Linux. Do you really think GNU/Hurd would have taken over?
- gkya 10y agoGnu over a BSD kernel could have. Linux was there at the right time.
- pessimizer 10y agoHonesty, Linus has been more important than Linux. Linux was just a student's side project. Linus is a force.
- cyphar 10y agoThere are many other kernels. Hurd is one of them. There's also several free BSD kernels (which were liberated around the same time as Linux was being made). And universities make operating system kernels all the time. Making a kernel is not as big of a deal as creating a fully compatible Unix-like operating system -- which is what the GNU project did. So I don't agree that "GNU would've gone nowhere". If GNU had a kernel before Linus made Linux, then Linux would've gone nowhere.
- PeCaN 10y agoDo you call Android "just Linux" also? There's a bit more to the OS than just the kernel. I dunno, I think people tend to associate Emacs = GPL, Vim = BSD. Same with GCC vs Clang. Oh and Emacs says ‘GNU Emacs’ all over itself, same with the GNU Compiler Collection.