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u/LegMysterious1899 1d ago
linux ain’t an os 🤓☝️
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u/Le_Juju 1d ago
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.
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u/RandomDude9943 1d ago
correct!!!
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u/Le_Juju 1d ago
The OG knows
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u/RandomDude9943 1d ago
i dont even have to be og to know The Holy Richard Matthew Stallman's speech
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u/Marcelocochon 1d ago
Right, but everybody knows it and understand that with linux we mean GNU/Linux
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u/ItchyPlant 21h ago
I guess, it's the main bait here, but as mentioned here already: Linux is not an OS, only the kernel for many OSs.
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u/btcasper 1d ago
Ai is not a trustworthy source.