davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agoAckchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linuxmessage-squaremessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down121file-text
arrow-up1145arrow-down1message-squareAckchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linuxdavel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square61fedilinkfile-text
Some examples: Android Alpine: Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox glaucus: A simple and lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and toybox Chimera (alpha stage): Chimera uses a novel combination of core tools from FreeBSD, the LLVM toolchain, and the Musl C library
minus-squareneo (he/him)@lemmy.comfysnug.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agonobody is saying that linux distros that don’t have the gnu core utils needs to be called GNU/Linux
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down4·1 year agoAnd nobody is saying that they do. But there are plenty of people who are unaware that non-GNU Linuxes exist.
minus-squareTGhost_Nell 🇵🇸@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoBut there are plenty of people who are unaware that non- GNU Linuxes exist.
minus-squareMuddybulldog@mylemmy.winlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoAnd plenty who don’t know you can GNU without Linux.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoAfter 33 years of development, GNU/Hurd still may not be ready for production use, but it’s not quite dead 💀 🦜
minus-square0x0@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoSo there’s still hope for StarCitizen.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoAlso true. Feel free to make an informational post on the matter.
nobody is saying that linux distros that don’t have the gnu core utils needs to be called GNU/Linux
And nobody is saying that they do. But there are plenty of people who are unaware that non-GNU Linuxes exist.
But there are plenty of people who are unaware that
non-GNULinuxesexist.And plenty who don’t know you can GNU without Linux.
After 33 years of development, GNU/Hurd still may not be ready for production use, but it’s not quite dead 💀 🦜
So there’s still hope for StarCitizen.
Ofc if they dont know GNU 😆
Also true. Feel free to make an informational post on the matter.