What exactly is GNU?

Okay, so quite clearly it is not Unix, so what is it then?

A fancy way of saying 'linux'.

A Unix-like operating system frequently paired with the Linux kernel, the X windowing system, and various other pieces of software.

The entire package is known as GNU/Linux/X/$DE/OpenOffice.org|TeX/Python/Perl/Tux Racer.

>>3
You forgot the GIMP which is clearly the killer app of the GNU suite.

GNU

GNU is Not UNIX

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project

>What exactly is GNU?

A cheap Unix clone for those who haven't yet discovered BSD

>>1
GNU is "Not Unix"
That's what GNU is. GNU = Not Unix.

subject to occurs check.

unix :: a -> Bool

gnu :: a -> Bool
gnu = not . unix

>>9

?- [G,N,U] = [[G,N,U,S],[N,O,T],[U,N,I,X]].

G = [**, [**, O, T], [**, [**, O, T], I, X], S],
N = [**, O, T],
U = [**, [**, O, T], I, X]

(define gnu (lambda (unix) (not unix)))

(def gnu (fn (unix) (not unix)))

>>10
HASKELL. HASKELL NOMADS.

gnu=!unix

It's a goat-like animal that is hunted by haskell nomads.

is it really an operating system, doesn't it need a kernel for that? i'm a long time bsd user that only uses linsux on client servers so i might be reaching here but it's my understanding that what makes all this confusing is because linsux is a kernel and gnu is a set of tools and a complete operating system has to be a kernel and a set of tools, and together they form GNU/Linsux which is a complete operating system

i find this hilarious
What is GNU?

The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free software: the GNU system.

GNU's kernel wasn't finished, so GNU is used with the kernel Linux. The combination of GNU and Linux is the GNU/Linux operating system, now used by millions. (Sometimes this combination is incorrectly called Linux.)
so basically it started as plans to write an entire operating system but they never finished so instead of NOT calling it an operating system they pair it with linsux and continue calling GNU an operating system

"Linux" is the correct name for the operating system, and indeed is what it's been called for years. "GNU/Linux" was invented afterwards to try to steal some of Linux's glory.

http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html

i found it very interesting that only 6 linsux distros qualify as truly free and i haven't heard of any of them

>>20
Hmm, no Debian?

>>21
http://vrms.alioth.debian.org/

>>21
Debian is for show-off Jews, use Ubuntu.

>>23
Ubuntu is for niggers who can't configure Debian

>>24
Or for people fed up with stable's ancient software and sid's instability. Right now I'm running Ubuntu, but with Gnome removed and pretty much all of the user-visible Ubuntu changes removed or disabled. It's like Debian would be if they released every 6 months.

>>25
>Or for people fed up with stable's ancient software
The whole point of stable is so things don't break and you can expect stuff to just work. If you must have ZOMG LATEST VERSION there is always backports.org

I stopped using Ubuntu back in 2006 when this was discovered: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/34606

There have been numerous other occasions of poor QA. Do your own research; all I will say is you've got some poor quality operating system there buddy.

>>26
Well, shit.

I was wondering why the security flaw I reported a while back (with a patch) still hasn't been touched. I thought it was because it's not a common package, but I guess it's endemic. Thanks for the pointer.

Back to Debian, I guess. Unless someone here knows of a decent Debian that isn't Debian.

    I used to worry. Lost in translation, couple
of weeks since I lost sleep, insomnia they say.
I fear that no soporific drug will do anymore.
No sleep anymore, this was it. They say you don't
feel when you get crazy, you flee from reality.

    I fear nothing nor hope for anything, a truly
free being, someone who simply exists, simply does.
A gallivant soul, a craving spirit. I do accept it,
it's been long since I recall myself having even the
smallest bit of purity. A beast they say, a beast they
say and throw rocks against me, rocks that will crush
the thickest bone and the strongest heart.

    Lost in a cesspool of ideas and thoughts, trying
to make a coherent point, perhaps bring some peace to
the reader of this post; perhaps idle chat some more,
keep the beast under control.

    My luck is running out, I'm afraid, just like my
hopes, fading away slowly reminding me of great times.
Another tear, is it not? Another soul that everyone
forgot.

    In the clear moonlight, waiting for an eye contact
with God himself, I ponder, how perplexed and buffled
one could be, endeavoring to obtain a connection with
His Majecty, in such unholy place.

    I look at all the lonely people, wondering why.
Who and what, such motivation to continue living?
Where do you all belong, dear lonely souls? What
do you care? Where do you all come from?

    I am looking for answers in a computer monitor.
How silly, I would grin at such laughable act some
years ago. Perhaps even burst out in laughs; Why,
oh why do I cry now? Pathetic is as lamentable does,
that's what they say.

   I don't want to leave now..

--

    ``Yesterday''

>>27
Unless you have a specific need to run Linux, I recommend you check out freebsd.org. I have been running it since 5.3. The upcoming 7.0-RELEASE looks very promising.

openbsd.org

beat the machine in your head

>>30
No way

>>30
tinfoilhatos.org

http://adm.freelsd.net/

>>33
4chon.org

GNU IS NOT LINUX

BUT WHAT THE HELL IS GNU?

GNU IS NOT LINUX IS NOT LINUX

BUT WHAT THE HELL IS GNU?

>>1
If you look at GNU and include the Hurd, you\'ve find that it is a Unix compatible operating system that attempts to improve on the Unix design.

>>3
you don\'t need X to run an operating system. you need an operating system to run X.

>>38
X is just as much a part of the operating system as bash, wget or Emacs (all part of GNU).

>>39
Bloat is just as much a part of the operating system as bloat, bloat or Bloat (all part of RMBloatS).
fix'd.

BSD is Love.