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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 22:08:20 JST clacke
   Kid: ... the OG Internet, like back in 2016 ...
   Me: *snortsmirk*
   Kid: Shut up! The OG Internet for my generation, ok?
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     Jak2k (jak2k@mastodontech.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 02:45:50 JST Jak2k

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     @clacke @leyrer As Gen Z, I wish I had lived in the real OG internet times…

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     leyrer (leyrer@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 02:45:55 JST leyrer

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     • Jak2k

     @jak2k @clacke let me tell you, it was awesome and cumbersome at the same time 😂

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 02:45:59 JST clacke

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     • Jak2k
     @jak2k @leyrer By 2016, I had been on Linux as my primary for 18 years. 😀
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     Jak2k (jak2k@mastodontech.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 02:46:00 JST Jak2k

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     • leyrer

     @leyrer @clacke I don't want to imagine using Windows… 🤢

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 16:50:15 JST clacke

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     • Mercurial "The Game" Black
     @Merc @leyrer @jak2k Ok so not everything was better in 2016. 🤣
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     Mercurial "The Game" Black (merc@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 16:50:16 JST Mercurial "The Game" Black

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     • Jak2k
     @clacke @leyrer @jak2k I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
     
     Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
     
     There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
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     leyrer (leyrer@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 19:32:35 JST leyrer

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     • Mercurial "The Game" Black

     @clacke @jak2k @Merc well, nowadays it's called systemd/GNU/Linux.

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