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Maybe you're out of the loop but GNU fanatics always make a fuss about "Linux" without the GNU part.
by moralestapia 4y ago
Maybe you're out of the loop but GNU fanatics always make a fuss about "Linux" without the GNU part.
- speedgoose 4y agoRichard Stallman had a whole speech about this. From memory, his main point was that most of a Linux distribution was built with GNU tools and the kernel was only a (key) component of it. So he was asking to say GNU/Linux to show some appreciation.
- saagarjha 4y agoRichard Stallman is right for some things and wrong on many others. His hit rate on naming is generally pretty bad.
- atahanacar 4y agoStallman seems to be somewhat jealous that Linux did what his software couldn't. And I'm saying this as a person who loves GNU software, philosophy and greatly respects Stallman. Just because your used a few GNU build tools, doesn't mean you should call it GNU.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoMost distros aren't just using "a few GNU build tools", though - nearly everyone's using bash as their shell, GNU coreutils for basic system tools, and glibc as the underlying libc that runs almost every binary in the system, and I feel like that deserves a mention. Frankly, I think most people would find GNU/kFreeBSD more familiar than Alpine/Linux.
- speedgoose 4y agoAnd GCC.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoI was ignoring gcc (and binutils) as build tools.
- saagarjha 4y agoOk, but it’s fine to just ignore their petty naming arguments.
- atahanacar 4y agoI'm definitely not out of the loop. It has been a meme since forever. I also get that parent comment was making a joke.