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minus-squareschnurritolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agothe thing is that not all of them use systemd or bash or zsh or even X11 (servers don’t usually have X11 installed) All of them use a Linux kernel and many components that were originally developed for GNU, especially the C library.
minus-squareEufalconimorphlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 months agoYes, I listed sysvinit for that reason. And Musl instead of glibc. GNU is optional in a Linux distro, except for the kernel’s use of a GNU license.
minus-squareEufalconimorphlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoExcept Alpine & those based on it, which uses Linux but not GNU libc or GNU coreutils or GNU BASH… Just musl libc & Busybox. I.e. the entire subject of this thread is one of the non-GNU Linuxes.
the thing is that not all of them use systemd or bash or zsh or even X11 (servers don’t usually have X11 installed)
All of them use a Linux kernel and many components that were originally developed for GNU, especially the C library.
Yes, I listed sysvinit for that reason. And Musl instead of glibc. GNU is optional in a Linux distro, except for the kernel’s use of a GNU license.
Except Alpine & those based on it, which uses Linux but not GNU libc or GNU coreutils or GNU BASH… Just musl libc & Busybox. I.e. the entire subject of this thread is one of the non-GNU Linuxes.