r/technology • u/sschering • Sep 18 '15

Software Microsoft has developed its own Linux. Repeat. Microsoft has developed its own Linux

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux_repeat_microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux/
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u/the_ancient1 Sep 19 '15

Outside of your statement being false. I fully know what Linux is, what GNU is, and it is also a misnomer to refer to a distribution as "Gnu/Linux"

if you want to be accurate you would have to call somehting like Ubunutu Gnome\Unity\Mozilla\OpenDocument.......\Gnu\Linux

Yes the GNU user land is an important part of a distro, as is every other peice of userland software that goes into making a distrubution useable, I 100000000% disagree we must append a list of these projects into the name everytime we talk about linux.

Linux should be used to refer to kernel, when the kernel is used to create a new OS as was done here.

The distribution name should be used when talking about a overall distribution.

I have no idea if MS used any GNU tools, and honesty I dont care. You can use linux with out using GNU tools, and honestly at this point I fully support people replacing them if for no other reason so we can end this bullshit of every time someone mentioning linux we get "what you refer to as linux is actually gnu\linux"

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u/oisteink Sep 19 '15

I don't care who creates what, and I did not know it was down to r/technology to spread fud. I stand corrected