That’s not true anymore, there’s distros like Alpine which are not built using gnu tools.
rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio 5 days ago
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Apline is Linux/Busyibox or smth like that. However, that does not make 99% of distros not GNU/Linux.
Saying that the whole Debian, RHEL, SUSE and Arch realm (ie. stuff like Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Opensuse, EndeavourOS, Manjaro etc) and countless other distros are not GNU/Linux would be as, if not more, disingenuous as calling Alpine “GNU/Linux”
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Was Alpine built specifically to be able to tune out Richard Stallman?
sxan@midwest.social 5 days ago
And Chimera Linux (not to be confused with ChimeraOS, the GNUish gaming distro).
Ironically, Stallman himself is probably a prime motivation for Alpine and Chimera Linux, in a sort of “I’m sick of hearing this crap” way. Although it does say something about GNU that Alpine was also shooting for a distribution with as little bloat as possible, and it largely succeeded. For a long time, it was one of the most lightweight distributions around, leading to its popularity as a container base.
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
“I use Linux as my operating system,” I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. “Actually”, he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!’ I don’t miss a beat and reply with a smirk, “I use Alpine, a distro that doesn’t include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It’s Linux, but it’s not GNU+Linux.” The smile quickly drops from the man’s face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams “I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT’S STILL GNU!” Coolly, I reply “If windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?” I interrupt his response with “-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long.” With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man’s life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I’ve womansplained him to death.