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   alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 12:11:46 JST alcinnz

   The limited utility of the phrase “GNU/Linux” - Seirdy: https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/12/09/limited-utility-gnu-linux/

   Personally you'll often see my using the term "freedesktops", that draws the line I'm interested in!

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 12:11:42 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Tinker ☀️
     it's all a matter of whose history you identify with and wish to highlight. if you're proudly apolitical, tolerate and promote nonfree software like Linux, whether or not also pretending to stand for freedom, by all means highlight Linux and OSS. if you enjoy being part of a social and political movement, if you think people should be entitled to software freedom and would like to promote this idea, by all means promote GNU and FS. if you're somewhere in between, don't wish to commit to either one, the terms to reach for are GNU+Linux and FLOSS. your choice of terms is a valuable signal if you wish to promote change, to communicate what kind of change you wish to promote
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     Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 12:11:44 JST Tinker ☀️

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     • avalos

     @avalos @alcinnz - Yeah, I just shorten "Linux-based" to Linux in every day usage. Colloquialisms are understood to imply the technically accurate (but cumbersome specificity) connotations.

     翠星石 repeated this.
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     avalos@mstdn.social's status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 12:11:45 JST avalos

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     @alcinnz “I use Linux as my operating system” is technically not correct, as Linux is not an operating system unto itself. GNU/Linux is not an operating system either, but rather a *kind* of operating system. “Linux-based system” would be more correct, although it's still a *kind* of system.

     Linux-based systems have their names! Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Alpine, Guix, Parabola, etc.