A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it wasn’t written by me.

Here’s the text that is circulating. Most of it was copied from statements I have made, but the part italicized here is not from me. It makes points that are mistaken or confused.

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.

The main error is that Linux is not strictly speaking part of the GNU system—whose kernel is GNU Hurd. The version with Linux, we call “GNU/Linux.” It is OK to call it “GNU” when you want to be really short, but it is better to call it “GNU/Linux” so as to give Torvalds some credit.

We don’t use the term “corelibs,” and I am not sure what that would mean, but GNU is much more than the specific packages we developed for it. I set out in 1983 to develop an operating system, calling it GNU, and that job required developing whichever important packages we could not find elsewhere.

He actually added to the pasta…

It’s all 404 now, all the github pages are gone, the repo is gone.

*btw

Last time I compiled a kernel it was on a bus-overclocked K6-3/500 (higher bus, lower multiplier).

Get Brother. Epson works but it’s more fiddly, I haven’t tried a Canon in a long time.

You’re going to use a 10 core 64GB machine as a firewall? Do you mow your lawn with dynamite also? 🤣

It does not require an internet connection to use!

It’s messed up that that’s a selling point.

You know, it occurs to me that doing that with print really isn’t any different than the accepted method of debug logging other than where the output is directed to.

That’s how you find that one variable that isn’t used anywhere but breaks everything if you remove it.

I’ve built little things that already have a solution when that other solution either didn’t do it the way I had in mind or did more things than I needed it to. It really depends on how you’re valuing your time and knowledge/experience in the end.

Is it bad that I want to do it now?

Not really, no.

There’s a confidentlyincorrect community calling your name.

Edit: Or it might be calling my name if that’s a minus not a dash… I think I misread, sorry.

Everyone who had ever had one, Chrome OS is based on Gentoo.

I think the A is for asexual… like why tf would someone not interested in sexuality care. At a certain point it’s just someone wanting attention and I think we passed it a few characters ago. Before you, gentle reader, get upset see it for yourself… these come from Google search, obvious joke ones were ignored:

LGBT
LGBTQ
LGBTQ+ <- this is literally all inclusive, no need to go further
LGBTQ2 (“two spirit”… aka furries)
LGBTQIA+ (longest “official” acronym)
LGBTQIA2S+
LGBTQIAAP+
LGBTQIAGNC
LGBTQQIP2SAA
LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA+

If that doesn’t make it obvious I’ll leave you with a quote from Peter Tatchell:

It’s great to be inclusive, but the new alphabet soup is a confusing and alienating mess — made even worse when people get into spats over missing initials or the inclusion of initials they disagree with. The longest I’ve ever seen is LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA. This is absurd. It makes us a laughing stock and devalues serious issues around sexuality and gender.

What distro forces you in to a DE?

Mint has been pretty good for me. They didn’t follow along with Ubuntu and snap everything, but if you don’t want to touch anything Ubuntu there’s a version based on debian directly.

That plushie is going to be out in the trash next week with a small hole cut in the bottom, all crusty and strangely heavy, with one eye hanging down looking like it wants to say “I have seen some shit…”

Get a Brother laser aio.

I had no idea reddit made ATMs.

we fully support you in expanding Linux capabilities rather than imitating them

Just in case anyone is confused by that statement, it’s the distros that dropped x86 32-bit, the kernel still has it.