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Like 3 20 Nov 2023 at 10:15 | Open on wetdry.world

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ivory

this is my only acknowledgement of the "GNU/Linux" shit, only because I wanted to be as annoying as possible.

20 Nov 2023 at 10:17 | Open on wetdry.world

Horaz

@ioletsgo Rather annoying, indeed :mastozany:

20 Nov 2023 at 10:35 | Open on muenchen.social

ivory

GNU/Linux Copypasta

@Horaz 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!

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20 Nov 2023 at 10:36 | Open on wetdry.world

Râu Cao ⚡

@ioletsgo What Microsoft are doing may more aptly be called GNU/kWindows.

21 Nov 2023 at 22:52 | Open on kosmos.social

clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

@raucao Accurate until WSL2.

@ioletsgo

23 Nov 2023 at 8:06 | Open on libranet.de

lumi :blobcatnom: :blobcatflower:

@ioletsgo@wetdry.world is this the timeline where software is ethical and proprietary software never existed

or the timeline where even linux is proprietary software and freedom is dead

20 Nov 2023 at 10:21 | Open on snug.moe

Vori

@ioletsgo I guess it was the chair that Bill Gates jumped over

20 Nov 2023 at 10:27 | Open on tech.lgbt

ivory

@J0S3PH

20 Nov 2023 at 10:28 | Open on wetdry.world

Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

@ioletsgo Reminds me of this debugging-hell story (floor tiles vs. mainframe): https://patrickthomson.tumblr.com/post/2499755681/the-best-debugging-story-ive-ever-heard

20 Nov 2023 at 10:32 | Open on queer.hacktivis.me

halva(0)

@ioletsgo you'd laugh but
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

there's a very real timeline where microsoft just made a linux distribution with a proprietary gui instead of first making an gui for dos and then an entire os from scratch

20 Nov 2023 at 10:38 | Open on wetdry.world

ivory

@halva both ms-dos and the NT kernel both came largely into commercial use from contract work with IBM.

20 Nov 2023 at 10:39 | Open on wetdry.world

halva(0)

@ioletsgo i mean yeah obv

what im saying is that microsoft already did have commercial success with selling at&t's unix

20 Nov 2023 at 10:42 | Open on wetdry.world

halva(0)

@ioletsgo if anything that timeline is more likely than the one we've found ourselves in, as windows 3.x was the last attempt to make it popular after windows 1.0 and 2.x kinda flopped

20 Nov 2023 at 10:41 | Open on wetdry.world

Felix Urbasik

@ioletsgo I still wish there was a distro committed to replicating Windows XP. And yes I know there is ReactOS and plenty of themes but they aren't serious about it. I'm talking about an actually maintained distro that you can unironically use on hardware of the time as well as modern machines.

20 Nov 2023 at 10:39 | Open on ma.fellr.net

ivory

@fell windows XP was in the latter half of 32 bit hardware and primary support for those devices.
I'm sure there are distros that still support x86 hardware, but I think you'd be better off using a modern Linux distro with LXDE on what was at the time a high end WinXP desktop.

20 Nov 2023 at 13:07 | Open on wetdry.world

Rhew Na

@ioletsgo
Dang, still couldn't get one of the alternate mascots
@volpeon

20 Nov 2023 at 11:16 | Open on gulp.cafe

ivory

@Rhew @volpeon they would've had to move the table too

20 Nov 2023 at 12:04 | Open on wetdry.world

stefan‘s carwash

@ioletsgo Bill svorwalds

20 Nov 2023 at 11:32 | Open on wetdry.world

Mirko Schenk

@ioletsgo@wetdry.world Wonder if nerds praise Windows in that timeline.

20 Nov 2023 at 11:53 | Open on procial.tchncs.de

RoyalQuack

@ioletsgo
I uSe MiCrOsOfT aRcH

20 Nov 2023 at 12:02 | Open on mastodon.social

Quad

@ioletsgo sometimes i wonder how many butterflies we are from xenix having been the OS that powers most of the world

20 Nov 2023 at 12:39 | Open on akko.quad.moe

vxo

@ioletsgo couldn't be any weirder than what we already had with Corel Linux

20 Nov 2023 at 13:13 | Open on digipres.club

ivory

@vxo I will never understand what the connect is between a mediocre art program and a fucking Linux distro.

Would be like if Jif started building houses.

20 Nov 2023 at 13:16 | Open on wetdry.world

vxo

@ioletsgo Corel had branched out in a bunch of weird ways around the early 2000s, they bought out WordPerfect, and they somehow owned a product that was used for CD authoring with a bunch of early CD-R drives (it regally sucked, as you would expect). I get the feeling they were just in a period of being drunk on venture capital and spraying acquisitions

20 Nov 2023 at 13:30 | Open on digipres.club

Comrade Ferret

@ioletsgo cursed

20 Nov 2023 at 15:18 | Open on redpawcollective.co

Jiub

@ioletsgo Hey, we already have GNU/Windows 10 in this universe (aka WSL).

20 Nov 2023 at 15:29 | Open on mstdn.social

SuperDicq

@ioletsgo@wetdry.world I personally think a Microsoft made operating system based on GNU/Linux is a real possibility in the future considering Windows and especially the NT kernel has no reasonable future.