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I'd like to interject for a moment... (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Taken from the CompTIA IT Fundamentals Exam Guide book (2nd edition, published 2021). I'm not sure if they fixed this in newer versions, if at all.

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 years ago* (10 children)

I mean, it's technically correct? The G does stand for GNU, and GNU tools can be used to build Linux. It is indeed worded very badly.

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[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

No, that's a big confusion.

I hate the RMS rant about how you're supposed to say "GNU/Linux", but here we're talking about a GNU package that can be used without Linux. It's on FreeBSD and even macOS.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 years ago

It just goes to show how important it is to come up with a good name. Recursive acronyms are clever and all, but if no one likes saying it they aren't going to. T

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[–] Bye@lemmy.world 10 points 3 years ago (6 children)

No basically all Linux uses gnu Coreurils as a foundation and is therefore best called gnu+Linux. There’s a great RMS rant about this , it’s what the title is referring to.

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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Aren't their embedded systems that run the Linux kernel without the core-utils (maybe with busybox instead) and would therefore be non-gnu linux variants?

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[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 5 points 3 years ago

Yep, Alpine Linux does this as well.

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[–] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah these would be called NonGNU/Linux or Busybox/Linux.

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[–] DryTomatoes@lemmy.world 4 points 3 years ago*

They should make a new version of Linux From Scratch where all you get is the Linux kernel source code and you write the compiler and core utils yourself. Now that would be Linux.

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[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

And the next time RMS invent Linux, he can call it whatever he wants.

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[–] YaBoyMax@programming.dev 12 points 3 years ago