@Paradox >how is it more than a collection of software tools but also a kernel short of an OS? Even back then there many GNU packages that weren't tools - pretty much everything was ready but the kernel package (pretty much all of proprietary Unix was replaced, except for the proprietary Unix kernel).
If you look through the list of GNU software, you'll find a lot of packages that aren't tools that pre-date Linux; https://www.gnu.org/software/
For example, libgmp, a Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library that isn't a tool had version 1.1 released in 29-Sep-1991 (a lot of development is needed before a GNU package reaches a release), while Linux wasn't even announced until 25 Aug 1991 (now to document the rest).
>Also, branding matters. Not only is GNU/Linux a mouthful for the average person, it's not well known. LiGNUx or just GNU - whatever.
People may not have heard of GNU/Linux - but if they've heard of Linux, they'll ask about where the GNU/ comes from.
>The best you can hope for is people interested in Linux understand that it's made of separate pieces Linux, the kernel is monolithic and is not made up of separate pieces - and it also fits into and depends on the GNU OS - it's not a separate piece.
Why would you want to make people interested in a proprietary software kernel?
>while still allowing them to call the whole thing Linux. Why encourage people to refer to a GNU OS with the name of a proprietary kernel?
@Paradox The Wikipedia GNU article literally says; "The use of the completed GNU tools led to the family of operating systems popularly known as Linux." which is false. - Tools are only a few GNU packages - although GNU is commonly dismissed as mere tools. - Rather the GNU OS was almost read - it just needed the last piece - a kernel - which Linux provided - to make the GNU/Linux OS - but of course such combination is incorrectly known as "Linux".
@PalePimp@Electronwarrior It's yeast configured to produce some virus proteins (not even attached to a virus) that end up in the stomach (not even injected into the blood or anything).
That either won't do anything, or will be a convenient vaccine against polyomavirus's with next to 0 risk (the only risk I can think of is people with bodies that go full retard and decide to have a Anaphylaxis response to the proteins - but that can happen at random with anything).
Polyomavirus's and other virus's are everywhere - if you eat or drink anything, you are consuming a chemical and protein cocktail that causes random, barely understood effects on the body.
@deprecated_ii You would think how weight doesn't really matter that much beyond inertial and steering concerns for a boat would allow cramming sufficient batteries, but I guess not?
@snacks I figure that's because those fire a piece of lead very inaccurately and anything handcrafted using modern techniques and tools is much better.
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