Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux

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Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux

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Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish • 8 months ago

Some examples:

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Alpine: Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox
glaucus: A simple and lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and toybox
Chimera (alpha stage): Chimera uses a novel combination of core tools from FreeBSD, the LLVM toolchain, and the Musl C library

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The fsf website actually separates distros. There is GNU/Linux and nonGNU/linux

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