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Is Linux really like this? If so, it really is GNU plus Linux.
Noah Ward
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Nathaniel Bennett
Gnu is less then 8% of any given system No i am not including GNOME because GNOME isnt standard technology and dosent come with many distros default image.
Now that's been settled, you can go back to re dit or Sup Forums or whatever turd you crawled out from
Ryder Thompson
>exclusion And why is this a problem? You can use linux and a different userland.
Elijah Myers
>no terminal ever How is that "normie" friendly? You can, and in some cases need, to use a terminal shell on windows and macos, and those are supposed to be friendly to people wiith less technological background. Or are redshitters these days using a different meaning for "normie"?
Evan Wright
You should support the GNU project even if your machine is 100% GNU free
Colton Gray
Thank you, but I'm perfectly capable of making my own choices.
Samuel Rivera
Why would i support gnu? Its bloated and filled with politics. I dont need politics in my linux distro
Easton Brooks
Seems kinda abitrary.. An OS doesn't need xorg, gnome, kde, mozilla and definitely not whatever is meant by other.. Are you talking about some set of all major distros perhapds? Seriously, that graph tells you nothing..
William Cox
If you were an actual computer enthusiast you would. and in fact no, it is a project designed to keep politics out of your software, not the other way around.
Benjamin Wilson
I've never had problems with terminal, I feel like things get fucky when I install things not from a repo.
Jackson Hill
I cant put it any better then when Linus said this. >In some ways, Linux was the project that really made the split clear between what the FSF is pushing which is very different from what open source and Linux has always been about which is more of a technical superiority instead of a — this religious belief in freedom.
>There are 'extremists' in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do 'free software' any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred. >-- Linus Torvalds
Jeremiah Martinez
and I can't put it any better than what this user said last time:
Jaxson Miller
>GNU/Linux
Jordan Wood
Ignore gnu posters, dont shit up the thread
Caleb Wright
Maybe the most pointless pie diagram ever posted on cuckchan.
Connor Taylor
>If you were an actual computer enthusiast you would. This is just ridiculous and it's the reason why people don't like you GNU/Zealots.
Levi Gutierrez
why rms is such a babby?
Liam Brooks
He don't like sopa de macaco.
John Wilson
I want to partition an USB drive with fdisk and created a partition. What type does the partition have to be for NTFS file system and optional use on windows?
Eli James
Too bad it's true. Nobody who likes tinkering with their machine and software that doesn't think it's smarter than you would ever be avidly opposed to a movement designed to give them exactly what they want, and instead support companies who want to restrict your ability to play with things.
Kayden Morris
Reminder: GNU and FSF exists because Richard "M" Stallman got a hissyfit at a printer being propriatary, yet printers are still propriatary. Richard Stallman has contributed literally nothing to the world in the past 40 years
Aiden Jackson
found it, it's 7. 86 and 87 must not be used, even though their name contains NTFS. They have another purpose.
Jeremiah Campbell
I would actually love a free printer. These things are truly anti-consumer, more than even Windows.
Henry Powell
Actually he has. You probably wouldn't even be using GNU/Linux at all today if it weren't for him, or you'd be using some proprietary derivative of it that's extremely locked down because Linux, the kernel, would have never been licensed under the GPL and countless other software which would have never been licensed under the GPL.
It probably wouldn't even be used on web servers as ubiquitously as it is today because proprietary versions of things would be dominating the market and much much more vulnerable for it. Microsoft servers would actually be viable in that bizarro world. But thanks to RMS that's not the case.
>You probably wouldn't even be using GNU/Linux I would be using a different userland that linus would have chosen at the time. gnu wasnt even his first choice
>But thanks to RMS that's not the case. Not really, someone else would have created free software, most likely less autisticly .
We would be where we are now if rms was never born, and thats the hard fact you stallmanist cant understand(cognative dissonance)
Ryder Flores
>We would >hard fact
I don't even disagree with you on the whole, but seriously dude
Jason Jenkins
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Luis Turner
>I would be using a different userland and like I said, it would be extremely weak in the security department. The GPL may be "viral" but it has done more than you can imagine for improving Open Source projects. Without it you might have a different userland on Linux but hardly anyone would be using either.
Liam Kelly
So bsd's userland is insecure? Noone uses the bsd userland?
Busybox is a very viable and secure userland and makes up for 68% of the mobile market(Android)
Brayden Howard
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Adrian Myers
The linux kernel itself is GNU program you mongoloids, it should be called just 'GNU', like for example 'Arch GNU', 'Gentoo GNU', not GNU/Linux. Linux is part of the GNU project.
Jack Green
Busybox is ded. Some say because the tried to enforce the GPL, but more likely the google and their anti-gpl policy were the culprit. >So bsd's userland is insecure? Based on the memes, openbsd is the most secure by default.
John Jackson
You should post something from PDP-11 era too.
Chase Fisher
>ded busybox-1_27_2 came out 1 month ago. Lastest commit to source was 52 minutes ago. Far from being "ded"
HOLY FUCK ARE YOU ADDMITTING ANOTHER USERLAND IS SECURE AND USEABLE HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK But wait...its not gnu... how can that be?
Asher Gutierrez
I believe in zombie apocalypse and it will start in a wall-mart.
Joshua King
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Owen Martin
That syscall is controlled by gcc not busybox its self
Does anyone know where BOINC puts it's daemon error logs to? I don't want to register on their forums, I hate having 50 accounts for every dumb thing.
My daemon recently started failing and shutting down randomly and I don't know why, I'm kinda scared my CPU is overheating. But I run ryzen so hurt durr no sensor support yet...
Isaiah Edwards
Quick question for you anti-GNU fags Do any of you not like systemd? Just curious.
Robert Rogers
I dont like systemd I dont use systemd
Christian Foster
and you also don't like GNU?
Ian Bell
No
Matthew Cook
Interesting, thanks. I would have guessed that most of you would be systemd supporters.
Landon Cox
why?
Elijah Martinez
>systemd supporters Does such a thing exist? I always thought arguments were between anti-systemd guys and guys who just put up with it.
William Martinez
I wish. Some people seem like pretty serious defenders.
