a lot of money is made by developing Linux companies like Intel, Google, even MicroSoft contribute to Linux development with patches and money
Colton Martin
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Carter Taylor
why would you want your mom to use fuckin linux? why would she want to use a *nix os?
Carson Peterson
You mom is stupid.
Jaxon Brooks
Why the fuck would you make your poor mother use Linux?
No matter if you think Linux is a piece of shit or deny that fact she's the total opposite of Linux' target audience
William Morales
I'd need a picture of her to answer your question.
Joseph Martin
this
you also forgot to interject, pleb
Xavier Thomas
Tell her that the code can be checked by everyone, so people can find bugs and security holes rather quickly...and even check if it has anything suspicious inside. Also
Easton Mitchell
Is that true for all distros?
I don't care either way. She saw me using it and started asking questions.
I mentioned this to her. She wondered if that also meant someone could insert something malicious more easily.
Caleb Richardson
The kernel is made by paid developers of various companies, for being used in servers, phones and such.
The DEs are made by amateur volunteers and companies like Canonical and Redhat.
Jaxson Morgan
Tell her OSx was made out of Linux.
Samuel Jones
Who makes Windows? >Microsoft But WHO. I need names.
> She wondered if that also meant someone could insert something malicious more easily. Yes and no. Since anyone can modify Linux or one of its distributions, anyone can create a malicious Linux distribution. That said, you're not downloading Yuri's Linux distribution from some Bulgarian imageboard, you're getting something used by many people. By the terms of the GPL, these distros have to publish their source. If the source is malicious, it will be found out very quickly. As far as distributing compromised binaries goes, it's just as easy for some CIA or PLA operative to compromise binaries at Canonical as at Microsoft. One major difference is that all the utilities you download have to publish their source to become part of the distro's repo, so if you download from the repo, you're much less likely to get malware than if you download executables from the internet (which you do when you're running windows).
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Jack Adams
>Who is Linux made by? Communists and murderers
Levi Nelson
Tell her about Redhat, OP.
Jonathan Williams
Not OP, but go fuck yourself you little piece of shit.
Easton Hall
Linus Sebastian you dumb fuck
Gabriel Nguyen
The meme man Richardo Stalledman
Sebastian Reyes
Well, most Linux users are programmers to some extend, and that's why we have the best tool chains for basically everything.
Also, most super computer software runs on linux and in many cases the APIs to comunicate to them also run only on linux.
Beneath that, you can tell your mom what I told my mom when I installed Linux on her machine many years ago: "I manage your computer, therefore I chose what platform I would want to troubleshoot when something goes wrong"
Adam Anderson
Tell her she an idiot for trusting an evil corporation that gives away their software for "free" in order to profit from your personal data/information. Rather than trusting a community of devs, many unpaid, who do what they do cause of their love for Linux/FOSS. And are required to follow ethical guidelines in order to have their software published, and loose all credibility and privileges if they sell us out.
Ryder Watson
>Is that true for all distros? Yes, the list of maintainers of the Linux kernel is like 50% Intel employees. You can see the full list here:
Set her up with Fedora and tell her Red Hat, Inc. backs it.
Benjamin Robinson
>for all distros Indirectly if not directly. A lot of the upstream has benefited from these contributions
Nicholas Green
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring 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.
Elijah Wilson
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring 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.
Oliver Lewis
Autism
Kevin Nguyen
Your mum sounds p cool desu
Evan Lewis
Can we have more Stallman copypaste?
David Lewis
Arguing with your mom about computers is pretty autistic man.
Owen Morris
Linus Torvalds and his prof
Sebastian Roberts
>not mentioning the marvelous Richard Stallman
please, go away and dont come back
Zachary Gutierrez
This
Aiden Ross
>Who is Linux made by Linus torvalds, fucking newfag