davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agoAckchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linuxmessage-squaremessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1166file-text
arrow-up1166message-squareAckchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linuxdavel [he/him]@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square60fedilinkfile-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-up8·1 year agoAnd nobody is saying that they do. But there are plenty of people who are unaware that non-GNU Linuxes exist.
minus-squareTGhost [She/Her]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·edit-21 year agoBut there are plenty of people who are unaware that non- GNU Linuxes exist.
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoAlso true. Feel free to make an informational post on the matter.
minus-squareMuddybulldog@mylemmy.winlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 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.
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.Also true. Feel free to make an informational post on the matter.
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 😆