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- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -6/+286And Windows is not an actual window...
Amazing facts from the internet!!!!!!!11 - blatant3, on 11/21/2008, -15/+167And Leopard isn't an actual Leopard?
- Zomgondo, on 11/21/2008, -8/+68If you don't say GNU/Linux you will make Richard Stallman very angry!
...which is actually a pretty good reason to just call it Linux. - Sammi84, on 11/21/2008, -4/+60Amazing fact number 3: DOS was actually at one point a Dirty Operating System:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS - kd420, on 11/21/2008, -4/+55Yeah, since not many of us actually meddle with or compile our own kernels, I think using Linux to refer to OS's is fine. Seriously, the context usually makes it obvious anyways.
- Zaggynl, on 11/21/2008, -9/+50*yawn*
This is not an issue.
If some nerd says "OMG IT' Linux/GNU!!11eleven" to you, tell him Linux/GNU doesn't quite off the tongue like just Linux. - hamobu, on 11/21/2008, -6/+42Referring to distributions as 'Linux' can cause a great deal of confusion. A zdnet editor tried out Ubuntu once and concluded that Linux is not ready based on his inability to install RPM based package on Ubuntu. The guy was not making a point or anything, he just did not know any better.
- damndj, on 11/22/2008, -0/+326. Linux
- sigmaman2, on 11/22/2008, -3/+34I run LINUX on my HP at WORK, then I go HOME and watch the NEWS on TV.
I DO NOT run the Intrepid Ibex version of the Ubuntu distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system on my Hewlett-Packard Model 6400 laptop at my position as an Information Technology Technician, then go to my current address of residence and watch the evening broadcast of current events on my 32" High Definition television with 720 lines of progressive resolution.
A smart man uses few words.
A pedantic man expresses his thoughts with the assistance of exalted verbiage and a myriad of polysyllabics. - secrity, on 11/21/2008, -1/+30That is like saying that a diesel powered car isn't a car because it didn't run right when he filled the tank with gasoline.
- GothAlice, on 11/21/2008, -0/+26Uh… GNU/Linux, isn't it?
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -5/+29And Palin isn't an actual politician?
- saranagati, on 11/21/2008, -2/+25Actually it's more like saying diesel engines aren't ready for the mainstream because someone didn't like a car one was put into.
- suprememilo, on 11/21/2008, -5/+27And this is why you don't have friends.
with a hint of /s - dmason, on 11/21/2008, -5/+26Somewhere Richard Stallman is crying that GNU/Linux wasn't used here.
- Sammi84, on 11/21/2008, -2/+18Troll.
- mrsteveman1, on 11/22/2008, -1/+17no but i broke it one time, there were pieces everywhere
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+15Windows for Workgroups doesn't actually make your groups work.
- deconsecrator, on 11/21/2008, -1/+16Actually you usually can:
sudo apt-get install alien dpkg-dev debhelper build-essential
sudo alien mypackagename.rpm
sudo dpkg -i mypackagename.deb - noen, on 11/22/2008, -1/+15OSX is not actually the letter X.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -3/+17And the Internet is a Series of Tubes, now GTFO!
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+14Not really...
"DOS" is an archaic term predating MS-DOS; it meant "Disk Operating System". Disk-based operating systems were novelties back then, when most OSes were stored in ROM, so most disk-based OSes used "DOS" in their names to distinguish them.
Enter QDOS, which is what MS-DOS was called before Microsoft bought it. QDOS was named "Quick & Dirty Operating System" by its creator as a pun on the generic term "DOS" and the quick-and-dirty nature of the project. After a while, disk-based operating systems became common enough that nearly all OSes were DOSes, and it was no longer fashionable to put DOS in an OS's name. Due to the popularity of MS-DOS and the fact that it always kept DOS in its name, people came to associate the acronym "DOS" with MS-DOS exclusively. - damndj, on 11/22/2008, -1/+15Ron Paul wasn't an actual contender for President?
- cartisdm, on 11/22/2008, -1/+14Really? When my friends see my laptop (running ubuntu) they say "Wow! How'd you get a Mac on your computer?!?!"
....hmm, maybe I need smarter friends - Cymrubeats, on 11/21/2008, -5/+18I'm not picking on your post, but i've just noticed this more and more; have some words been banned from the internet?
- MacGyver2210, on 11/22/2008, -0/+13Brave statement on Digg
- mockupscaledown, on 11/22/2008, -1/+14We have a winner.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -4/+17Its okay to just say Linux because its a widely accepted vernacular, as pertained to Ubuntu-Linux, Debian... or what have you. People that correct others on this measly non-issue look like this http://tinyurl.com/3vpbgj
PS: Calling it GNU/Linux is like calling a Subaru a FUJIHEAVYINDUSTRIES/SUBARU, just because they make the engine don't mean they get final say on the cars name ;) Its LINUX YOU *****. - inactive, on 11/22/2008, -0/+13http://www.kernel.org/
- khelp, on 11/22/2008, -0/+11inadvertently or not, you have actually just helped me a great deal. thanks.
- nuclearwasted, on 11/22/2008, -0/+11Normal people worry me.
- MrBogard, on 11/22/2008, -0/+11Welcome to Digg, you're in good company.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -5/+16God bless you all, but Linux fans are weird.
- kalidav, on 11/21/2008, -8/+19Who cares.
- lukasmach, on 11/22/2008, -2/+12The whole "GNU/Linux" name is absolutely impotent from a marketing point of view. You simply don't put confusing abbreviations into product names. That's not nice, it confuses the users and creates the impression that the OS is more complicated that it really is. Yes, it's more correct, but using this name is harmful.
- nuclearwasted, on 11/22/2008, -0/+10You got it wrong anyways.
# rm -rf ./grammar/nazis
real men use a root shell. sudo can bite me. - nuclearwasted, on 11/22/2008, -5/+14Yeah. I think it's mostly the words that help make sentences readable. This guys post sounds like an excited adhd 14 year old typed it too fast and without any proofreading. Way to botch something that most 10 year olds can grasp.
And I /am/ picking on his post. - djbon2112, on 11/21/2008, -1/+10The progenitor of MS-DOS, QDOS, was an acronym for Quick and Dirty Operating System. Makes you wonder ;)
- ezran, on 11/21/2008, -1/+10Preach it, brother!! Preach it!!!
- mrsteveman1, on 11/22/2008, -1/+10That only works if things happen to be binary compatible, sometimes they work sometimes they don't.
Not a result of the package format, just a reality of different distros packages. Same thing happens even using debs built for another distro. - AboveandBeyond, on 11/21/2008, -1/+9still dirty to me...
- Charun, on 11/21/2008, -3/+11I don't know how to pronounce Ubuntu.
- MacGyver2210, on 11/22/2008, -1/+9"Ok. How many times ... the annoying fact that “Linux is actually a kernel”?"
Exactly 0. I guess my friends are either ignorant or just not as pedantic as the assmonkeys you hang out with. Fail for friends, win for using Linux. Yeah, I said it. Linux. Wanna fight about it? - MMaster23, on 11/22/2008, -4/+11Give them a break .. that cellar in their parents house is quite damp.
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -1/+8it just attacked me instead. This wasnt better than windows at all. I Dont recall my PC ever hospitalizing me :(
- inactive, on 11/22/2008, -3/+10Unbuntu? I'm going to learn...Unbuntu?
- Archer007, on 11/22/2008, -1/+7I thought it was weird when the leopard wouldn't fit in my Mac.
- Rothbardosaurus, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6I don't know what this Linux thing is; I use Ubuntu.
- ultrafez, on 11/22/2008, -0/+6Linus Torvalds.
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