as a systems developer, I find it pretty dishonest when the FSF attempts to call it GNU/Linux, as though GNU coreutils are in any way an operating system
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cafkafk (cafkafk@catgirl.farm)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 02:35:11 JST cafkafk - Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: likes this.
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q66 (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 02:35:38 JST q66 @cafkafk honestly i got kinda tired of all this stuff over the years
in the end every system is such a combo of random stuff that putting *anything* in the name makes no sense; the only thing that unifies it all is linux, so for practical reasons it makes sense to call it linux
but for whatever reason just about everyone chooses to beat the dead horse
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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 02:49:56 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @cafkafk Funniest part is like, you can swap utilities or heck even libc pretty freely and most software will keep running (I did a hot swap of glibc to musl on my gentoo desktop, precompiled core system, swapped and recompiled the rest).
Meanwhile if you swap the kernel well… you're probably going to have a broken system, even with acknowledging that most operating systems today have a linux-compat layer. -
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cafkafk (cafkafk@catgirl.farm)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 02:49:57 JST cafkafk “we just needed a kernel to finish our gnu operating system” i’m sorry, but that’s by far the largest component you were missing there buddy, like can we stay in reality and say you had some system utilities?