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"Today"= 18 Months Ago (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 hours ago by homesweethomeMrL to c/microblogmemes

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[–] maplebar 129 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Wait you mean the guy who made a free and open source operating system for everyone to share is left wing!?!?!? WHAT THE FFUUUU

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

There are a great number of nutjobs running (F)OSS projects, so I wouldn't assume much about any software maintainer. Also, Linus explicitly only cites upsides to FOSS that pertain to developing the software itself, not to any greater social effort.

[–] psmgx 6 points 4 hours ago

TempleOS comes to mind...

[+] Hiro8811 -12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

*Kernel

[–] maplebar 56 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Don't undermine the fact that Linus also made Git and I'm pretty sure some scuba diving app. Modern day essentials if you ask me!

[–] mrslt 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think it's undermining to credit him with exactly what he accomplished. Linus created the kernel, Stallman invented GNU.

[–] andros_rex 22 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Why not just post the copy pasta

I'd just like to interject for a moment. 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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

it's just copypasta. thanks for posting. but i think it's just less popular on lemmy