• SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    344·
    7 hours ago

    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!

    I use Ubuntu btw

  • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    I must be out of the loop. Are Linux apologists and tankies at cross purposes for some reason?

        • bruhSoulz@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          43 minutes ago

          Theres a joke some instances are filled with tankies and it can be annoying for non tankies, when in reality theres actually an even bigger amount of linux apologists who are even more obsessed about their passion/hobby than tankies and talk about it more than they do, which is likely to be more annoying for non linux users. At least thats my takeaway

    • Muad'dib@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1014·
      5 hours ago

      Yeah. Linux is anarchist. Tankies don’t believe in Linux because it functions without state ownership. They think it’s a CIA psyop.

      • frozenspinach@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I’m not sure I agree with that interpretation, but that’s at least an explanation for why they might be at cross purposes. Can anyone else who’s upvoting the meme explain what this is about?

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        101·
        4 hours ago

        No? Linux is usually supported by leftists in general, especially considering the alternative is largely MacOS or Windows, both corporate spyware. Marxist-Leninist orgs like FRSO even use it as standard (check the bottom of the page).

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
            51·
            4 hours ago

            Sure, I just think it’s left plainly enough that people could read it and genuinely believe that, almost on par with people who think Marx wanted the same formulation of society as Anarchists, when Marx wanted full centralization and Anarchists want full decentralization.

            One of the biggest problems on the Left is people speaking past each other or extrapolating analysis from out of context snippets.

  • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    6 hours ago

    But there are three figures at the bottom. The other two are Trekkies and Furries maybe?