Explanation for newbies: The GNU/Linux copypasta is an argument made by Richard Stallman that the operating system should be referred to as “GNU/Linux” or “GNU+Linux” because linux is just the kernel and what makes it useful are the various GNU programs and libraries like coreutils and glibc.
Alpine Linux is a linux distribution that ships without any GNU software (though it can be installed using the package manager).
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I love that alternative copypasta where the alpine user corrects the gnu/linux guy and he just fucking dies.
“I’ve womansplained him to death”
And that’s why Alpine should be considered harmful. Copyleft is important, folks! musl and BusyBox are just ways to facilitate even more enshittification, Tivoization, and other corporate abuse than the GPLv2 kernel already does by itself.
alpine is technically cool with how lightweight it is but it being non gnu is a big bummer really
Based and GNU pilled
This is why I license my work under GPLv3+ (not going to link my codeberg/GH because I’m not fucking stupid)
I agree with copyleft and the fsf’s core ideas, but also understand some people just don’t like gnu, due to just not wanting to call it “gnu/linux” and stallman being kind of weird
Huh, good point, I never stopped to consider what licenses are behind Alpine.
I agree with your point that pushover licenses should not be the way forward (I personally license all of my major projects with GPLv3 only), but I’ll still keep using alpine because I like it from a technical standpoint.
Alpine has a simple diskless install process. Nobody else does. Alpine wins.
Alpine should be considered harmful
that’s a rather anti-liberal sentiment coming from what one would assume to be a mostly pro-liberal open source community.
It’s just a figure of speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
was Stallman really the author of that copypasta? I mean it’s funny to pretend he did, but does anyone know for sure?
No, it was a user on the FreeNode IRC in #Linux, not Stallman
No, but a lot of the copypasta is paraphrasing him.
There is linux without gnu. Is there gnu without linux? sure, but I don’t know anyone who uses hurd.
You could say you’ve never hurd of someone using it
Oh hur hur hur(d)
