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*ahem* 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 Lin

• palata 3y ago
  Unless you don't use the GNU userland... some are using busybox/Linux, right?
  • Conscat 3y ago
    Yeah, it's only GNU/Linux if it uses the GNU OS API with the Linux kernel, as opposed to GNU/Hurd for instance, which also uses the GNU OS API.
    • mort96 3y ago
      Dude the "OS API", in the Linux world, is the syscall interface. Some programs use the wrappers provided by GNU libc, others use the wrappers provided by musl, others yet (such as Go programs) issue syscalls directly.
      • Conscat 3y ago
        Hopefully they will one day use my zero-overhead syscall wrappers with sum type niche-value-optimized error handling https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat https://github.com/Cons-Cat/libCat
• mort96 3y ago
  I agree. Switching from glibc + coreutils to musl + busybox is much more like "switching operating system" than switching from Linux + systemd + GNOME to HURD + SysVInit + KDE. Obviously not. GNU hasn't been "the operating system" in at least several decades.
• NovaDudely 3y ago
  I used to find this funny but having had the misfortune of having to hyper define stuff to Stallman on multiple occasions... the joke starts to feel like remembering a lite trauma I mean RMS is cool and totally awesome but dang it... there are just some things. This goes for everyone I guess.