All things Linux

[Monica Dream]

I like to go old school.

*sighs* you kids and your tablets...

 

[danielravennest]

Khamon's first command prompt

I used those in college in the computer lab. We played B-1 Bomber on it (a text game).

 

[danielravennest]

I like to go old school.

That reminds me. I need to finish the backyard firepit so I can bake some clay and leave cryptic inscriptions for future archaeologists to find. I have clay soil.

 

[Khamon]

I used those in college in the computer lab. We played B-1 Bomber on it (a text game).

and Zork and we had an old version of Colossal Cave as well

 

[Free]

So, still waiting for someone to tie this all up in a Linux bow. Somehow.

 

[Ashiri]

So, still waiting for someone to tie this all up in a Linux bow. Somehow.

Good luck with that. We'll be fighting over which ribbon to use.

 

[Noodles]

*sighs* you kids and your tablets...

Then you get a compile error and realize that the center right hand has an extra indent and needs to move 3 fingers to the left and now you have to find a new cave to rewright all of your code again and instead you just say fuck it, and this is how we the Earth ends up with a Stack Heap error 5000 years later and we get COVID.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

and Zork and we had an old version of Colossal Cave as well

Real Zork, all in one file.

(Infocom had to split it into 3 parts to fit it into 8 bit floppy based hardware)

 

[Free]

Good luck with that. We'll be fighting over which ribbon to use.

Hopefully made from GNU/Linen.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Hopefully made from GNU/Linen.

We should consider at least 50% recycled linen.

 

[Free]

We should consider at least 50% recycled linen.

GNU ISN'T recycled?

 

[Veritable Quandry]

GNU ISN'T recycled?

Either it's GNU or it's used. It can't be both.

 

[Free]

But but, GNU's New & Used!

 

[Ashiri]

But but, GNU's New & Used!

Geeks, New & Used?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

GNU is Not UNIX!

And of course PHP: PHP hates programmers.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Programmers Hate PHP, too.

 

[Free]

Programmers hate Linux too, but you'll never catch them admitting it.

(See, that is how you get things back on track!)

 

[Noodles]

Programmers hate Linux too, but you'll never catch them admitting it.

(See, that is how you get things back on track!)

I'd just like to interject for 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!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Wow. Copypasta. Also wrong.

Incorrect Quotation - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation

www.gnu.org

There are also Linux distros with a BSD/clang userland, and there are GNU/BSD with a GNU toolchain on top of a BSD kernel, and of course full BSD distros.

DragonflyBSD is probably closer to a usable free microkernel OS than Hurd.

 

[Free]

I'd just like to interject for moment.