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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by bigstrat2003 on Monday November 24, 2025 @08:33PM (#46041413)
When someone says "Linux" in isolation, they mean a conventional Linux distribution. Only extreme pedants and Richard Stallman call it "GNU/Linux".
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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by surajrmal on Monday November 24, 2025 @10:57PM (#46042215)
I prefer to call it systems/Linux these days. The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking.
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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by pxc on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @10:37AM (#46046793)
> The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking.

What GNU software is actually being removed from any distro?

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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by Max_Limelihood on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @11:00PM (#46054059)
Ubuntu replaced their core userland utils with uutils, so the bulk of it. I’m guessing most other distros will follow suit.
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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by pxc on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:42PM (#46064959)
Huh. I didn't know Ubuntu had replaced GNU coreutils. I'm not sure that alone counts as "the bulk of it", but it's definitely very significant.
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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by surajrmal on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:05AM (#46058053)
pipewire, systemd, Wayland, etc. none of that is produced or maintained by GNU.
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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by pxc on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:41PM (#46064947)
ALSA, sysvinit, and Xorg weren't GNU projects, either.
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Re:Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC by bryanlarsen on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @09:28AM (#46046041)
They didn't say Linux in isolation, they said it on a comment on a story that mentions two Linux non-conventional distributions and has no mention of conventional Linux. Therefore the presumption is that they're referring to the Linuxes in the article.
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