Gork
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- Submitted 3 hours ago to [deleted] | 15 comments
- Comment on Tough guy dad 4 hours ago:
Peanits
- Comment on SBA G Series #136 6 hours ago:
There are exceptions, of course, where even everyday people can be immortalized in history, like Ea Nasir.
- Comment on Thats the good stuff 1 day ago:
I also like doing these for the Lemon Stealing Whores.
- Submitted 1 day ago to [deleted] | 22 comments
- Comment on Streamline it 2 days ago:
It has been too long without state border restructuring. It’s time to make some adjustments!
- Comment on Dicks out for harambe 5 days ago:
Stroke it for good luck
- Comment on A Witcher Expansion? In 2026? 6 days ago:
Can I see it?
- Comment on Just don't 6 days ago:
But I don’t know of a single Boss Baby who doesn’t do lines of cocaine. They don’t become CEOs by doing normal baby things.
- Comment on borger 6 days ago:
I want that burger bun as a squishy pillow
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It seems like the ship is accelerating to RAMMING SPEED
- Comment on Come on, just do it. 1 week ago:
Sorry pal you’re stuck here with the rest of us losers.
Cheer up though and have a hot dog 🌭
- Comment on Wowee 1 week ago:
Bigly if true
- Comment on Just say no 2 weeks ago:
This is why I always laughed around Halloween when the news tries to scare people that drugs are being put into candy.
Drug dealers aren’t exactly known for just handing out product for free.
- Comment on Washington man arrested for allegedly throwing rock at seal in Maui 2 weeks ago:
Time to tie the fine to a fraction of percent worth, like how the Europeans do it.
- Comment on We're not going to make it 2 weeks ago:
If you’re gonna microplastic, might as well be microplasticmaxxing.
- Comment on Tung Tung Tungspo 2 weeks ago:
Candle wax lookin’ muthaducka 🕯️
- Comment on You gotta try #19 2 weeks ago:
I can never decide between 15 or 16
- Comment on systemd 3 weeks ago:
No, Richard, it’s ‘Linux’, not ‘GNU/Linux’. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.
Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.
One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS – more on this later). He named it ‘Linux’ with a little help from his friends. Why doesn’t he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff – including the software I wrote using GCC – and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don’t want to be known as a nag, do you?
(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title ‘GNU/Linux’ (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn’t the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you’ve heard this one before. Get used to it. You’ll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.
You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn’t more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn’t perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.
Last, I’d like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn’t be fighting among ourselves over naming other people’s software. But what the heck, I’m in a bad mood now. I think I’m feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn’t you and everyone refer to GCC as ‘the Linux compiler’? Or at least, ‘Linux GCC’? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?
If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:
Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux’ huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don’t be a nag.
Thanks for listening.
- Comment on systemd 3 weeks ago:
If it’s a D system, why didn’t they design it to pass with an A, so systema? Are they stupid?
- Comment on brb 3 weeks ago:
So that’s how they get glazed.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It would also explain why he thinks of the Las Vegas Strip when he hears about the Gaza Strip.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I was expecting more tentacles.
- Comment on Holy drip 3 weeks ago:
It might be AI but it’s real in my head cannon. All he needs now are akimbo submachine guns to complete the look.
- Comment on Finally, we have the blueprints! 3 weeks ago:
Sign me up!
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- Comment on Bet 3 weeks ago:
“Hun, would you rather get $1 million dollars in a year or get $1 in a million years?”
- Comment on Marketing 3 weeks ago:
I’d buy from this vendor
- Comment on Farmer group chat 4 weeks ago:
Wow they ain’t send separately
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Wow girl you’re so beautiful
