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   greeeeen :blobcatpresentgreen: (christmas edition) (green@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 07:24:28 JST greeeeen :blobcatpresentgreen: (christmas edition)

   does uname still say gnu/linux, if it's running musl?

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 07:24:26 JST SuperDicq

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     @green@mk.absturztau.be I believe this command lists the userland implementation, not the C standard library.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 07:33:47 JST SuperDicq

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     @green@mk.absturztau.be You made me curious so I installed a Chimera FreeBSD/Linux container and it reports itself as "Linux", unlike my host machine's Debian install which lists "GNU/Linux".
     
     I personally think it should be reporting FreeBSD/Linux in the case of Chimera because that's the userland it is using, but the Chimera devs are probably to blame for that.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:05:14 JST 翠星石

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     @green Even if you compile GNU coreutils with the inferior musl instead of glibc, it will output GNU/Linux correctly - after all, glibc is only one GNU package; https://gnu.org/software
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:07:27 JST 翠星石

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     • SuperDicq
     @SuperDicq @green It printing "GNU/Linux" would be correct.
     
     As I pointed out before, just because you use the NonFreeBSD coreutils and a few libraries, while using far more GNU software, doesn't make it NonFreeBSD.