davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-211 months agoAckchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linuxmessage-squaremessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up1144arrow-down1message-squareAckchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linuxdavel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-211 months agomessage-square58fedilinkfile-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)AlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·11 months 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-down4·11 months agoAnd nobody is saying that they do. But there are plenty of people who are unaware that non-GNU Linuxes exist.
minus-squareTGhost [She/Her]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·edit-211 months agoBut there are plenty of people who are unaware that non- GNU Linuxes exist.
minus-squareMuddybulldog@mylemmy.winlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoAnd plenty who don’t know you can GNU without Linux.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months 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-up2·11 months agoSo there’s still hope for StarCitizen.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·11 months 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.