Post #2598435

2022-12-27 12:55 UTC

@otyugh@pouet.chapril.org @eloquence@social.coop even if terminology may be important, GNU/Linux offers not so many relevant info for the end user anyway. It's only useful for programmers (and mid/low level ones) who wants to know the ABI is GNU's one. For end users the name of the distro itself conveys more info. Or the package manager used. Or the DE...

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@otyugh@pouet.chapril.org 2022-12-27 13:19

@LuigiDev@mastodon.lol @eloquence@social.coop Functionally speaking I agree. Like, as a dev, open source isn't much different to libre, so why the big fuss ? But they do not always encompass the same communities. I think I wouldn't do much free work for "open source" - that I do today and tomorrow - because "libre software" is about more than juste publicly available code.

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@matthieu@mastodon.weber.fi.eu.org 2022-12-28 09:33

@LuigiDev@mastodon.lol @otyugh@pouet.chapril.org @eloquence@social.coop As GNU represents the larger code-base (compared to Linux), I suggest we all stop calling our systems "Linux" and start saying "GNU" instead, as it offers enough relevant info (and who cares about what kernel you are running, really?)

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