shittydwarf

joined 9 months ago
[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 111 points 6 months ago (6 children)

...What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 89 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah very weird glitch that all those things were grouped together.. so strange

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

Steak and eggs?

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Space battleship Yamoto 2199 is a BANGER highly recommended!

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But but that would mean we can't have billionaires anymore!

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

It's probably the best thing that's on YouTube. Watching that kid go from a babe in the woods to an experienced traveller and a brilliant filmmaker in such an authentic way is very inspiring.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago

Truth is I have a themed alt account solely for posting trek memes, I'm here for it

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Also star trek! So. Much. Star Trek

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So somebody is still salty about the end of apartheid, I wonder who it could be

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