- simple ( @simple@lemm.ee ) 61•2 months ago
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-
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English14•2 months ago
There are a number of Linux distributions that do not have a GNU user space, so no.
- Frog ( @Frog@lemmy.ca ) 13•2 months ago
Thank you Mr. Stallman!
- silkroadtraveler ( @silkroadtraveler@lemmy.today ) English9•2 months ago
A name is just a simple reference to a system composed of interrelated and essential OS components: Kernel, windowing system, networking tools, virtual memory, user interfaces, the list goes on…
Yes GNU is an essential suite of tools but so is X (or Wayland) and many other unnamed yet critical subsystems.
Now GPL licensing on the other hand, THAT is a foundational precept to FOSS that deserves sole credit back to a single project.
- desconectado ( @desconectado@lemm.ee ) 4•2 months ago
Do you correct everyone who says Windows instead of Microsoft Windows NT?
- HauntedBucket ( @HauntedBucket@lemm.ee ) 27•2 months ago
Ha, imagine an alternate universe where crowdstrike took down people’s refrigerators.
- Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) 8•2 months ago
A chilling thought.
That would be so funny 😂
- Sparky ( @Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•2 months ago
Please don’t jinx that. I really don’t want my fridge to stop working because of crowdstrike
- caseyweederman ( @caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ) 3•2 months ago
It happened to a bunch of Linux servers a couple months back but nobody cared and so Crowdstrike didn’t change anything so it happened again.
- unfnknblvbl ( @unfnknblvbl@beehaw.org ) 24•2 months ago
I am constantly amused about how “next year” has been “the year of Linux on the desktop” for 20+ years. Meanwhile, Linux & BSD have pretty much completely taken over the whole world except the desktop in that same time.
- humbletightband ( @humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 12•2 months ago
You want Microsoft to go out of business, you monster?
- lengau ( @lengau@midwest.social ) 12•2 months ago
Yes
- Dyskolos ( @Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ) 2•2 months ago
I’d take MS 10x in the butt over Crapple taking over the desktop-market completely. You know what no-competition means for us, yes? And no, Linux is NOT an alternative for everything for everyone. And there probably never will be a linux-desktop-for-the-masses coming right into your supermarket/pc-store.
- humbletightband ( @humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•2 months ago
But Bill Gates is such a nice guy, why do you want him to starve to death?
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 22•2 months ago
Lots of routers are BSD.
Fair point…
- humbletightband ( @humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 22•2 months ago
Actually it’s all Java
- coffeejoe ( @coffeejoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 15•2 months ago
Oracle wishes. We’re smarter than that.
- uis ( @uis@lemm.ee ) 5•2 months ago
Sun shines. No, other Sun.
- humbletightband ( @humbletightband@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•2 months ago
Writing in scala doesn’t make you smart
- desktop_user ( @desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•2 months ago
What about lua?
- LoudWaterHombre ( @loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 14•2 months ago
Routers often run on BSD
- frezik ( @frezik@midwest.social ) 4•2 months ago
Wish they didn’t. DIY opnsense/pfsense boxes are much harder for finding compatible NICs because they’re on BSD. Conversely, used enterprise-level NICs often have better drivers on Linux than Windows.
- Snot Flickerman ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English13•2 months ago
Huh, I don’t follow supercomputers very often. I didn’t realize in the last 10 years UNIX dropped off the map of supercomputers entirely in favor of Linux.
Pretty cool.
- davel [he/him] ( @davel@lemmy.ml ) English10•2 months ago
The ones that aren’t BSD-based, anyway, like for instance pfSense.
- leisesprecher ( @leisesprecher@feddit.org ) 7•2 months ago
Or MacOS, or the PlayStation OS.
- ryannathans ( @ryannathans@aussie.zone ) 2•2 months ago
Netflix and whatsapp servers
- belated_frog_pants ( @belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ) 7•2 months ago
Now now, some of it is windows ce still. Amazingly