Topic: Gentoo
+Gentoo — 12.3 years ago #35,201
Gentoo(Edited 29 seconds later.)
+Anonymous B — 12.3 years ago, 5 minutes later[T] [B] #400,892
+Catherine !TGirlYJKXM — 12.3 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #400,901
I came up with an idea for a story which involves a couple who can be called conservative who constructs a spaceship to search for a new planet to call home which they deemed, "New America". The man's wife later reveals that she is infertile and so he constructs for her a robot to serve as her son and he is named Gentoo.
+The Captain !PundosRBSM — 12.3 years ago, 2 hours later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #400,925
·Anonymous C — 12.3 years ago, 38 seconds later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #400,926
@OP
Are those the farting aliens from Dr. Who?
Are those the farting aliens from Dr. Who?
+Anonymous E — 12.3 years ago, 14 hours later, 18 hours after the original post[T] [B] #401,050
To call the Linux operating system "GNU/Linux" is an error that many people make without truly realizing why it is incorrect. While one software development group, centralized in the GNU project, has contributed a lot to Linux, some distributions of Linux do not utilize these components, yet the name "GNU/Linux" is still spouted whether the OS uses GNU components or not.
Different distributions have their own brand-names for the same product, Linux, but a brand name that perpetuates the previously mentioned error can be seen as a brand-x product, not the real thing. Many distributions such as Slackware and Gentoo take the respective names "Slackware Linux" and "Gentoo Linux", which is the correct naming format.
Other distributions, such as Debian, make the assumption that the Linux kernel depends on GNU utilities, while other projects, such as Busybox, utilize the kernel to set up another Unix-like environment. While the Debian Project's own distribution does, in fact, use many GNU utilities and programs, it is really stealing the name to a widespread operating system.
But the GNU project believes in "Free as in freedom," but stealing seems like a different kind of "Free" to me.
Different distributions have their own brand-names for the same product, Linux, but a brand name that perpetuates the previously mentioned error can be seen as a brand-x product, not the real thing. Many distributions such as Slackware and Gentoo take the respective names "Slackware Linux" and "Gentoo Linux", which is the correct naming format.
Other distributions, such as Debian, make the assumption that the Linux kernel depends on GNU utilities, while other projects, such as Busybox, utilize the kernel to set up another Unix-like environment. While the Debian Project's own distribution does, in fact, use many GNU utilities and programs, it is really stealing the name to a widespread operating system.
But the GNU project believes in "Free as in freedom," but stealing seems like a different kind of "Free" to me.
+Anonymous F — 12.3 years ago, 7 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[T] [B] #401,056
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.
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