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When someone says "Linux" in isolation, they mean a conventional Linux distribution. Only extreme pedants and Richard Stallman call it "GNU/Linux".
by bigstrat2003 1y ago
When someone says "Linux" in isolation, they mean a conventional Linux distribution. Only extreme pedants and Richard Stallman call it "GNU/Linux".
- surajrmal 1y agoI prefer to call it systems/Linux these days. The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking.
- pxc 1y ago> The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking. What GNU software is actually being removed from any distro?
- Max_Limelihood 1y agoUbuntu replaced their core userland utils with uutils, so the bulk of it. I’m guessing most other distros will follow suit.
- pxc 1y agoHuh. I didn't know Ubuntu had replaced GNU coreutils. I'm not sure that alone counts as "the bulk of it", but it's definitely very significant.
- surajrmal 1y agopipewire, systemd, Wayland, etc. none of that is produced or maintained by GNU.
- pxc 1y agoALSA, sysvinit, and Xorg weren't GNU projects, either.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoThey didn't say Linux in isolation, they said it on a comment on a story that mentions two Linux non-conventional distributions and has no mention of conventional Linux. Therefore the presumption is that they're referring to the Linuxes in the article.