Why Linux is portrayed as a Penguin?
Lettuce eat lettuce ( @Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml ) 82•9 months agoThe penguin’s name is “Tux” and he’s the official Linux mascot.
I think Linus Torvalds picked it a long time ago, he said he wanted something that was non-threatening, so hence the penguin lol.
The debate about Linux vs GNU/Linux imo, is one of the stupidest and pedantic debates I’ve ever heard. Maybe it mattered 30+ years ago when things were much less developed and only hardcore nerds and programmers used it, but now days it’s only important to grognards and neckbeards.
Hot take, but it’s like those pretentious music enthusiasts that will argue about what precise genre an artist fits into. “I would say they are post-progressive indie skitzo-pop. No way! They are clearly more neo-grunge sca-punk with post-rock elements” who cares?? Have your ultra-precise categories in your personal music collection all you want, but acting like it’s based on some hardcore objective truths of the universe is stupid.
Nobody is confused when I say I run Linux as my OS. Actually, people do get confused but it’s not because of GNU/Linux, it’s because they haven’t ever heard of Linux and thought that Windows and MacOS were the only 2 OSes for computers.
If somebody genuinely pulled an “um, actually” on me for saying Linux vs GNU/Linux, I would scream laugh loudly and then change the subject.
- Joliflower ( @imgel@lemmy.ml ) 17•9 months ago
Both. Richard and Linux paved the way for what all FOSS and the world currently is
oo1 ( @oo1@kbin.social ) 14•9 months agoBTW/Arch
TheScaryDoor ( @TheScaryDoor@startrek.website ) 14•9 months agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_(mascot)
TIL, Linus Torvalds just likes penguins.
Miku Luna \ she/it ( @backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 5•9 months agoYeah, he’s just based like that
abclop99 ( @abclop99@beehaw.org ) 9•9 months agoSystemd/Linux
Floey ( @Floey@lemm.ee ) 8•9 months agoJust go with whatever software distribution you use.
TheImpressiveX ( @TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml ) 8•9 months agoGNU/Linux is the more technically accurate term, but in practice, most people say “Linux” so that others know what they’re talking about.
And the reason for Tux is because Linus Torvalds was once bitten by a penguin.
nrabulinski ( @nrabulinski@beehaw.org ) 13•9 months agoIt’s not more accurate with distros like gokrazy, alpine, or chimera which aren’t necessarily based on GNU software (the last of which specifically advertises itself as „non-gnu Linux”)
Adanisi ( @Adanisi@lemmy.zip ) English6•9 months agoMost people don’t use them. And nobody is calling them GNU/
CIAvash ( @CIAvash@beehaw.org ) 7•9 months agoGNU+Linux 😀
radix ( @radix@lemm.ee ) 1•9 months ago🤓🤓🤓
raubarno ( @raubarno@lemmy.ml ) 7•9 months agoGun/Linux 🔫
HubertManne ( @HubertManne@kbin.social ) 7•9 months agoFor me its GNU/linux formally. Linux would not mean anything to me without the gpl. I would likely be using freeBSD or sticking with windows/mac. Heck I would be using mac now if they had not abandoned their great warrantly support of pre 2010
The Doctor ( @drwho@beehaw.org ) English5•9 months agotl;dr - people can be silly.
raubarno ( @raubarno@lemmy.ml ) 5•9 months agoAs the others made a good point, Linux is the kernel (program that connects hardware altogether and manages processes). GNU is an organisation beginning in 1983 that made some vital userland programs (Bash, GCC, readline, GNOME, GTK, GIMP, etc.) as a replacement of the proprietary ones found in UNIX and Windows. Linux is created by a Finnish student Linus Torvalds and is not a part of the GNU project but it’s been licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the first free software license.
Linux is used by a lot of companies, and some of the products that have Linux inside refuse to accept the paradigm of software freedom. Examples of this are: Chrome OS, Windows Subsystem for Linux, Google Android and some (but not all) appliances (like routers) that are locked-in and contain proprietary blobs.
Therefore, in technical discussions, I use the word “Linux” to refer to the OS, as “this software is compatible with Linux”. But, when I want to stress out software freedom, given a large influence of the GNU project, I say “GNU/Linux”.
nrabulinski ( @nrabulinski@beehaw.org ) 5•9 months agoThere’s quite a few Linux distributions or whatever you want to call it that aren’t associated with GNU or are not based on GNU software
raubarno ( @raubarno@lemmy.ml ) 3•9 months agoYes, there are.
nrabulinski ( @nrabulinski@beehaw.org ) 3•9 months agoSo calling those which are just as open but not associated with GNU GNU/Linux is disingenuous, despite the influence of the GNU organization
Adanisi ( @Adanisi@lemmy.zip ) English2•9 months agoDoes anyone actually do that though?
nrabulinski ( @nrabulinski@beehaw.org ) 1•9 months agoThe person I replied to specifically said
Therefore, in technical discussions, I use the word “Linux” to refer to the OS, as “this software is compatible with Linux”. But, when I want to stress out software freedom, given a large influence of the GNU project, I say “GNU/Linux”.
So they use GNU/Linux to refer to any open system
Adanisi ( @Adanisi@lemmy.zip ) English2•9 months agoI must gave missed that. Yeah, calling, for example, Alpine GNU, is wrong.
franpoli ( @feanpoli@lemmy.ml ) 3•9 months agoIt depends on what matter to you. I use a GNU/Linux distribution and I call it that such because I think the project deserves to be better known. I say FLOSS rather than FOSS because I value freedom.
QuazarOmega ( @QuazarOmega@lemy.lol ) 3•9 months agoBoth, at alternate times to mess with the enemy
KDE ( @KDE@monyet.cc ) 2•9 months agoi am sry to say but half my friends dont know what linux is except android runs on it they are surprised that linux can run on computers
so … I just say linux
Also love this picture!