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More people should be aware of GNU part. I hate to see GNU having substantially less financial support than Linux.
by unlisted7347 2y ago
More people should be aware of GNU part. I hate to see GNU having substantially less financial support than Linux.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoThe other reason though, is why does GNU think they are so important compared to some pretty important other system components? Why isn't it GNU/Linux/SystemD/Mesa/Xorg? Basically every Linux desktop could be described that way.
- unlisted7347 2y agoBasically, if not GNU, Linux would have stayed a hobbyist project or maybe never even happened.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoSo should we call it Linux/Torvalds? Linux/Torvalds/Stallman? Heck, if Earth didn’t exist, Linux wouldn’t have happened, so Linux/Earth/Sun/Biology/Torvalds/Stallman/SystemD/Mesa/PulseAudio/Wayland… GNU nowadays is a tiny part of the desktop. There’s also projects slowly moving to rewrite it in Rust and a more permissive license, other parts are losing importance like GCC losing to Clang, so its relevance is dying over time. Just like the FSF.
- apantel 2y agoOr Linus would have found some other way to have a userspace and we’d still have Linux but with different tools.