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/flt/ came before /fglt/ took over, nothing wrong with wanting to call it /flt/
Cooper Morales
What distro should I get if I don`t want any DE, just i3 without too much trouble? Was considering Ubuntu server.
Joshua Myers
If all you care about is i3 and don't care about things like systemd, then ubuntu 16.04 LTS will be fine if you don't want to reinstall every 6 months
Juan Perez
Install GNU
Hudson Gonzalez
You got your thread
Christian Gomez
I want to Install Linux and dual-boot from a partition but man I'll be trouble with my dad if anything goes wrong. What do I do Sup Forums? VMs absolutely suck
Carson Baker
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.
Landon Hall
Nobody raids /fglt/ with anti-GPL pastas
Eli Rivera
Meant anti GNU pasta
Thomas Cox
GNU
Where the fuck are the mods?
Jace Reyes
/flt/ was here first, it was the very first one before GNU evangelicals took over. This is a legal thread because it's /flt/, not /fglt/
Isaac Peterson
FUCK GNU
Ethan Scott
If you really want to have a Linux thread, then you must talk only about the kernel, because that's what Linux is. A motherfucking kernel.
Leo Gonzalez
fuck off faggot, delete this thread now
Cameron Young
It's called GNU/Linux.
James Moore
You can have linux installed without any GNU software. Replace GNU coreutils with busybox, suckless sbase, or use plan9port. All the other GNU software can also be replaced, even linux kernel compiled with clang with just a few patches.
Oliver Reed
This is now a Stallman thread.
Carson Torres
I disagree. I use the word Linux to refer to the family of operating systems, just like Windows refers to a family of operating systems including Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8. And most other people use it the same way.
Alexander Hill
Then just delete the fucking thread and start over from scratch. Both Arch and Gentoo are distributions of GNU/Linux. In fact, just about everything on the OP pasta is about GNU/Linux.
Landon Roberts
Both arch linux and gentoo linux just call themselves officially "arch linux" and "gentoo linux"
Lincoln Hall
It's perfectly fine to use the word Linux to refer to Arch and Gentoo.
Joseph Gonzalez
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William Hernandez
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Isaac Collins
>just like Windows refers to a family of operating systems including Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8 Double standards much? Just call it NT so you can at least be a consistent idiot.
Matthew Ross
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Nicholas Edwards
>Someone decides to call it a linux thread rather than friendly GNU/Linux thread >GNU cultists immediately raid and demand they call it GNU/Linux when GNU is completely optional at this point Right, you guys are definitely not a cult
Andrew Morris
No. No double standards. You are an retard who is incapable of realizing that a single word can have multiple meanings.
Levi Fisher
You don't need GNU for a fully function desktop, no need to call it /fglt/
Daniel Russell
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Hudson Mitchell
Think you're misquoting here, buddy.
Blake Wright
>when Stallman sees this thrad.
Luke Peterson
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Cameron Lewis
>the guy who helped write a text editor
Adrian Garcia
Why can't we all just get along?
Dominic Flores
linux exists without GNU GNU doesn`t exist without linux
Justin Green
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Zachary Jackson
>Replace GNU coreutils with multiple alternatives >Patch linux kernel with patches to make it compile with clang >replace the glibc with musl or other alternative There you go, fully function linux desktop without any GNU software necessary
Brandon Ortiz
Because GNU evangelists always come to shit up those threads.
Jace Flores
THINK YOU'RE MISQUOTING HERE, BUDDY!
Brayden Powell
The state of anti-freedom idiots.
Angel Anderson
GNU and Linux
William Clark
A much needed lesson
Nathan Perry
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Hudson Jones
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Jeremiah Nelson
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Alexander Johnson
This is now a friendly Hurd thread.
Jack Fisher
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Isaac King
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Zachary Wright
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Gavin Young
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Jayden Butler
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Josiah Howard
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Juan Roberts
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Dylan Reyes
>GNU evangelical cultists raid a friendly linux thread You guys are cancer
As you can see, /fglt/ tried to subvert /flt/ and now think they're the original
Hudson Torres
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Ian Peterson
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Josiah Wood
>Idiots were here first. What's your point?
Owen Martinez
(checked again) not an arguement, faggot
Samuel Collins
How subversive of you, you commies
Jonathan Martinez
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Dominic Clark
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Luke Hall
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Luis Lee
flt had a bug, why would you want to downgrade?
Jaxson Harris
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Camden Johnson
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Dylan James
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Jacob Brown
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Noah Williams
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Chase Miller
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Caleb Bell
There you go OP, I hope you've learned a valuable lesson about freedom you fucking faggot.
Colton Morris
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Ayden Bailey
Nothing sounds like freedom by involuntary force by a powerful group of people
Carson Jones
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Elijah Green
You have to say what I want you to say! Exactly how I want you to say it! Or I'll spam you and troll you relentlessly! Until you do exactly what I say!
t. "freedom" guy
:^)
Ryan Hernandez
...to shut up.
Also, stop bumping this shit, there's a new thread here
Colton Watson
this
Matthew Williams
what should I call my computer
Jacob Walker
I am so glad I decided to filter all things related to /fglt/, including this thread.
Evan Young
If there only were cointainment threads for macfags and wintoddlers to filter them easily...
Ayden Jackson
I never liked when SJWs decided that it wasn't politically correct enough to say /flt/ and started calling it /fglt/. It's a stupid thread name and looks ugly. I hope people keep pushing this original name until it wins forever.
Henry Davis
doesn't look like the filter worked, considering you managed to post here
Dominic Lewis
GNU
Jeremiah Edwards
Linux
Luke Bailey
rosa
Landon Walker
Stallman fags need to kill themselves.
Dominic Bailey
I'd just like to interject for a moment, Gentoo is an OS that is either based on the Linux kernel and any set of userspace tools you want (most commonly the ones by GNU, yes), or the FreeBSD kernel and the FreeBSD userspace tools. Now kys
Gabriel Barnes
The FSF recommends Trisquel among others. Any one have experience with it?
Carter Gray
It's not the worst, but not good. I wouldn't religiously follow FSF suggestions.
You can configure Gentoo and other distros to accept license sets (like OSI or FSF approved licenses) and then still easily use the package manager to permit more on specific packages if necessary.
Ryan Parker
How's Ubunutu since it's killed Unity? no more spyware shit? or would you take mint over it?
i'm wanting to get back into it and do a vga passthrough setup
