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  • This is because you were talking about snaps and Ubumtu. If you had been talking Arch and rice they would have reconfigured their brains and returned you nicely.

  • kidnappers, kidnap linux user Turns on apple car play

    -kid "THATS PROPRIATARY SOFTWARE!" THATS NOT FREE AND OPEN SOURCE, richard stallmans gnu song intenisifys"

  • 2 hours only? I'm guessing there was no love for Gentoo or Arch. They threw an Ubuntu live boot drive at you and wished you luck.

    • I could barely explain why GNU is called "Linux"

      • I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering 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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