• lseif@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, BusyBox/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, BusyBox plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning BusyBox system made useful by the BusyBox corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX…

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      11 months ago

      I know this is a joke but people calling it busybox/linux is how I came to understand what makes linux a separate thing from gnu.