Richard Stallman - Daily use of GNU/Linux

http://www.MasterNewMedia.org Robin Good interviews Richard Stallman

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[sirloin3000]

I'd just like to interject for a 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.

[Danquebec01]

But... Your games are proprietary softwares? So your PC still have proprietary softwares on it.

Me, I mostly have free softwares on my main computer, but some are proprietary for some reason. I like the free ideology, but I can't actually have all my computer free. The time will come, but now, it's a transition from proprietary to free.

[BrandurJustinussen]

@Kelseyshutup I wouldn't call it either. The ideas of sharing, and freedom, has existed far longer than the concepts of political ideologies. Besides, the idea for gnu, and the gpl, came from people living in a capitalist society.

[Superfreaxx]

@Superfreaxx

When that happened the FSF decided to port the software that already been developed for GNU to Linux. Linux was just standing where HURD would've been if it came out earlier and completed the GNU Operating System. Again MINIXs contributions were insignificant in making Linux a working Operating System. GNUs contribution however was.

[Superfreaxx]

@maw88ify

MINIX hardly had anything to do with it. Linus had to use MINIX in 91 because it was the closest thing to a free operating system at that time. He made Linux because he was sick of MINIX's restrictions and waiting for HURD and 386BSD to come out. Had MINIX never been released, HURD probably would probably be where Linux is now. As it turned out, Linux came first and was released under the GPL.

[guymerritt]

As Stallman says, the move to an open source platform - at one time - meant giving up a lot of comfort and involved a substantial sacrifice in terms of software limitations and the learning curve. Now - unless you desire to goose step to the drum of some corporate giant - there's very little reason not to explore open source operating platforms and software. An a big thank you to Richard Stallman and the other pioneers of open source.

[WaterPocket]

@bob8984 right, I guess the skinheads made those distros themselves ... thats one of the ugly sides of freedom, but I can live with that.. :)

[Ograws]

This is what I should tell my friend who is having trouble with Windows 

[c0okiemon5ter]

wise words, wise man. 

[vaper192]

@orgthingy gnu + linux linux is just a kernel

[001HK0]

@bob8984 if abandoned projects means lack of dictatorial control by an anonymous person who calls people retarded as an insult, then yes, I'm fine with abandoned projects. If they're no good, they'll die out. The good projects are in it for the long haul and sometimes you get a nice little perl from the bed of sand that is the open source world of "vaporware"