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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

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

OP almost got it, what they really want is for it to go to the context view right away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A clownly power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

She has only one buttock 🤣

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (13 children)

A16, C7, still not quite there with hands. 😬

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And then went on to make this masterpiece.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is it slow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah sure, I'll just go buy something with 0.00000001 of a beanie baby. 🙄

 
 
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When I was at The Bad Place I had a sub just for me to post on.. anyone could read and comment, but only I could make a post. I used it kind of like a notebook, nothing personal like a diary. A fix I made for Gratuitous Space Battles crashing, a can opener I really liked, a commentary on when Reddit hired a pedophile and tried to cover it up, etc. Basically anything I wanted to make publicly available but didn't want to find/join a sub for.

The question is, is something like that possible in Lemmy without running my own instance? I know it's possible on a technical level, I'm asking about social and/or convention.

It's empty now but it was db2_ if you're curious

 
 
 
 
 
 

I have Jerboa installed also and links open in that from the web browser, I'd rather they opened in Liftoff since it's the one I seem to be using most.

 
 
 
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