GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006)

Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by linuxquestions8 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:38PM (#22755767)

Other users have touched on the fact that GNU makes up a very small part of the current user-land ecosystem. It seems to me that the only reason to keep GNU in the GNU/Linux title is for historical purposes, but even then I wouldn't argue for that. Why is GNU worthy of being included when referring to a Linux system in 2020? Linux, as I know it, seems to be pretty distinct from what it was before my time.

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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by imtringued on Thursday April 02, 2020 @04:25AM (#22757139)

I use Gnome every single day. It's a pretty substantial part of the user experience.

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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by theamk on Thursday April 02, 2020 @05:06AM (#22757326)

I don’t - and yet I work on the same OS, writing the same code and scripts using the same tools (clang, bazel, python).

Gnome is not a defining part of a modern linux system, it is just one choice of many DEs. And a large fraction of Linux systems don’t run any DE at all.

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Re:GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU (2006) by linuxquestions8 on Thursday April 02, 2020 @10:43AM (#22759525)

All the servers I interact with on a daily basis are certainly not running Gnome. So desktops running the Linux kernel are GNU\Linux but servers running the Linux kernel are just...Linux?

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