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GNU isn't Unix, for one thing. The GNU project intentionally flaunts historic behaviour in favour of pragmatism. I also find this line maddening: >in some vers
by jfax 6y ago
GNU isn't Unix, for one thing. The GNU project intentionally flaunts historic behaviour in favour of pragmatism. I also find this line maddening:
>in some versions of Linux ls
Do you mean "in some configurations of GNU ls"?
I wonder if educating people about computers these days, might have something to do with intentionally vague and gatekeeping language.
- bonoboTP 6y agoPeople dislike rms because he's seen as a weirdo, and too political, so GNU is hardly mentioned anywhere outside itself and outside FSF-allied ethical/political hacker circles.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoHuh? GNU is hardly mentioned because Hurd was never finished. "Linux" is the name for (obviously) all the Linux based systems if you don't have a specific distro mind. No one talks about an "Emacs" system or a "Firefox system" either. They talk about the relevant products where the label is disambiguating, like GNU Emacs.
- jfax 6y agoThe article is talking about GNU coreutils. If this article was talking about how Docker behaves, I'd hope the article would refer to it as "Docker" rather than "Linux".