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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i never heard someone using the term LiGNUx, is it some new way of saying GNU/Linux?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

it's an alternative to GNU/Linux proposed by Richard Stallman. I use it because I don't want to write out as much and I still want to differentiate from my use of Android's OS which is also technically Linux but it's not GNU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

What would you call Alpine Linux?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

it's an outlier for sure. I don't think I have a specific use-case for it as a distro but I do find it more respectable than Android.