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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by kryptiskt on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @07:54PM (#22754829)
Most of the stuff in userland isn't GNU. What GNU brings to the table pales in comparison to the technical complexity of the kernel or the GUI stack. While the kernel has grown up over the years from a janky hobby project to be a sophisticated base for smartphones and supercomputers, GNU still provides a bunch of common Unix utilities from the 80s and a C standard library. Maybe it's time to recognize that they aren't pulling their weight to get top billing here.
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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by PeCaN on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @09:37PM (#22755443)
err are you forgetting about GCC or something

(also theres emacs and 50 years of bloat have led to libc and common unix utilities ending up surprisingly complicated but i digress)

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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by new_realist on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @09:46PM (#22755493)
Most code these days is compiled using LLVM, thanks to mobile phones.
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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by saagarjha on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:32PM (#22755738)
Most code doesn't end up on mobile phones.
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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by 0xdeadb00f on Thursday April 02, 2020 @06:29AM (#22757642)
I beg to differ
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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by crazypython on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:28PM (#22755708)
For a very very long time, Linux could only be compiled with GC, and you could only interact with it from userland with glibc. Don't forget GNOME or GNUStep. GNOME is the default GUI, window manager, solitaire player, etc. of Ubuntu.

There's also Mastodon, which is a variant of GNU Social.

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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by jamesgeck0 on Thursday April 02, 2020 @12:44AM (#22756274)
Mastodon implemented Ostatus and currently uses ActivityPub, but its not a fork of GNU Social.
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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by cycloptic on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @09:28PM (#22755386)
The takeaway from the article is that GNU is a marketing term. There are some more modern tools like Guix that the developers have chosen to make part of GNU. I'm sure GNU would welcome a newer kernel or GUI stack if the authors of those projects wanted to carry the banner.
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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by johnklos on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @09:26PM (#22755380)
Bull.
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