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[-] philpo@feddit.org 18 points 3 days ago

Can we rather make the kernel more stable before we change the design? These instabilities cause the whole process to hang itself up or terminate FAR to often!

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

or, as I've taken to calling it "hu plus man"

[-] philpo@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Okay,might be because English is not my first language,but I did not understand that one.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

because you mentioned the kernel I was riffing off the Linux copypasta


I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering 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. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

[-] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

This needs the confused screaming meme with KERNEL PANIC text, haha

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes, too many of the current subprocesses are just straight up cruel (most often directly to the local machine root ~~loser~~ user). It feels like someone wrote it as a placeholder/prototype or a sadistic joke & they just went with it, no revisions.

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