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I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments. Jim Morrison

28 July 2006

Dear assmasters who insist on calling it GNU/Linux

I'm sorry, but I'm so sick of seeing this mindless crap repeated over and over - there is no GNU/Linux operating system. There is a Linux operating system that uses a lot of GNU tools, and it doesn't make GNU more important, or deserving of top billing.

Once you convince Richard M Stallman to call HIS kernel Linux/Hurd, since Hurd has taken giant fucking chunks of functionality out of Linux, WHOLESALE (IDE subsystem, anyone?), I'll consider not calling it outright hypocrisy, if not plain stupidity, to continue to attempt to ride on the Linux community's coat tails like this. GNU != Linux. Linux != GNU. There IS NO GNU/Linux!

Let me say that again, for those of you with tiny brains:

THERE IS NO FUCKING GNU/LINUX!

I have been using LINUX since 1994. I have run Slackware, Debian, Redhat, Fedora, Xubuntu (my current favorite), and a few you've likely never heard of, like Ygdrasil, and SLS. I have also used various BSD's, and I use GNU tools all the time on BSD. I don't see anyone (other than the Debian people) calling GNU/BSD. I am not a n00b, and I know what OS I run.

Do you?