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.
"I use Linux as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually", he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU Coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but it's not GNU+Linux."
The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" Coolly, I reply "If windows were compiled with GCC, would that make it GNU?" I interrupt his response with "-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won't be for long."
With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.
It is by Richard Stallman, known for having some pretty good opinions and a few horrible ones.
I’m familiar with the top-level one. I’m talking about layla’s. Dropping this Stallman gem for anyone unfamiliar with his takes:
CW: CSA
Early in the thread, Stallman insists that the “most plausible scenario” is that Epstein’s underage victims were “entirely willing” while being trafficked. Stallman goes on to argue about the definition of “sexual assault,” “rape,” and whether they apply to Minsky and Giuffre’s deposition statement that she was forced to have sex with him.
In response to a student pointing out that Giuffre was 17 when she was forced to have sex with Minsky in the Virgin Islands, Stallman said “it is morally absurd to define ‘rape’ in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”
That's a misrepresentation what Stallman said. The source you quoted frames it as though he's claiming the victims were "entirely willing" to be trafficked when he actually said
We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.
Criticize what he actually said, not a fabricated portrayal of it.
Yeah and that's barely scratching the surface of stupid shit rms has said or actually done to people at MIT.
fuck off birdman
edit: soz i thought this was a modified jackdaw copypasta
Linux is for nerds
I have literally not seen a single peer in my comp sci program run Linux as their OS
Surprising, a lot of comp sci programs will make you run linux as part of coursework.
Oh no yeah we make heavy, heavy use of Linux environments (I'm taking assembly and all of our labs are done inside of a browser based Linux VM lmao) but no one seems to use it outside of that
I seen a Mac running Windows though, that guy was cool
Unbased comp sci program. You need at least one Linux Nerd and at least one weird kid who is such a big fan of Acer that he owns merch (and yes this tends to be a guy I don’t make the rules)
What do they use? If MaxOSX it is nearly a BSD (at least you can get to the shell with a bit of work).
I'm running a freshly compiled fork of the GNU/Linux Plasma Ubuntu Linus edition (took 300 hours to compile but finally done!) and the bash console now allows me to write commands in Bash v3-fork2 which means i can type 'blahblahblah' and it will install everything i need and work perfectly. It also runs games through Wine through Google stadia through an aws instance so I can enjoy the same games as on windows, and it just works!
/s
im trying to scrounge up a cheap ssd so i can dual boot, i want a linux gaming drive
no.
:stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:
:tux:
