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Most of the stuff in userland isn't GNU. What GNU brings to the table pales in comparison to the technical complexity of the kernel or the GUI stack. While the
by kryptiskt 7y ago
Most of the stuff in userland isn't GNU. What GNU brings to the table pales in comparison to the technical complexity of the kernel or the GUI stack. While the kernel has grown up over the years from a janky hobby project to be a sophisticated base for smartphones and supercomputers, GNU still provides a bunch of common Unix utilities from the 80s and a C standard library. Maybe it's time to recognize that they aren't pulling their weight to get top billing here.
- johnklos 7y agoBull.
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- cycloptic 7y agoThe takeaway from the article is that GNU is a marketing term. There are some more modern tools like Guix that the developers have chosen to make part of GNU. I'm sure GNU would welcome a newer kernel or GUI stack if the authors of those projects wanted to carry the banner.
- PeCaN 7y agoerr are you forgetting about GCC or something (also theres emacs and 50 years of bloat have led to libc and common unix utilities ending up surprisingly complicated but i digress)
- new_realist 7y agoMost code these days is compiled using LLVM, thanks to mobile phones.
- saagarjha 7y agoMost code doesn't end up on mobile phones.
- 0xdeadb00f 7y agoI beg to differ
- crazypython 7y agoFor a very very long time, Linux could only be compiled with GC, and you could only interact with it from userland with glibc. Don't forget GNOME or GNUStep. GNOME is the default GUI, window manager, solitaire player, etc. of Ubuntu. There's also Mastodon, which is a variant of GNU Social.
- jamesgeck0 7y agoMastodon implemented Ostatus and currently uses ActivityPub, but its not a fork of GNU Social.