• Semperverus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    3 months ago

    What you’re referring to as Linux is actually SystemD/GRUB/GNU/Linux/Wayland+Pipewire+XDG/Desktop Environment Window Manager Stack

      • grue@lemmy.world
        251·
        3 months ago

        Imagine thinking that the guy who invented the concept of Free Software and built an entire compiler toolchain and userspace is “coat-tailing” on the guy who only made a kernel.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    33·
    3 months ago

    Sure, Linus and Richard get praised for making GNU Linux. But when I tried to make by own, the zoo kicked me out of the water buffalo enclosure.

  • pewpew@feddit.it
    32·
    3 months ago

    GNU/Linux/Apt/Flatpak/Snap/AppImage/Wayland/Systemd/Firefox/KDE/Pipewire/SDDM/Libreoffice/Supertuxkart

  • nao@sh.itjust.works
    243·
    3 months ago

    It’s not, because the x in Linus’ Unix is not referring to the windowing system:

    Linux Journal: Is it true that you suggested the name “UNIX” for the long ago OS, Multics? What does that word mean?

    Brian Kernighan: Yes, long ago. Multics was an acronym for something like Multiplexed Information and Computing Service, and it was big and complicated because it had many of everything. I suggested Unics for Ken’s new system, because it was small and had at most one of anything. (Multi and uni are both Latin roots, so it was a very weak pun.) Someone else spelled it with the letter X; no one can remember who.

    https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7035

  • liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    Someone send this to Stallman, so he can later download, print and view it at his pleasure.

    • superkret@feddit.orgOP
      6·
      3 months ago

      By now I’m fully convinced Stallman was right.
      I bet life is a lot nicer without JavaScript.

  • grue@lemmy.world
    91·
    3 months ago

    I agree, GNU/Linux is awkward and dumb.

    So I just call it “GNU.”

    • Flipper@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      What should I call it, when there isn’t anything GNU installed? Uutils? Llvm?

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Huh, the Internet King. I wonder if he can provide faster nudity.