Journal #7668

Don't get too worked up. You can download the source code for Ubuntu, change 3 lines of code and put it in that list calling it a new distro.

And there are people who really do this without any shame?

You know what I'm going to do? Download the source code for Ubuntu, remove 3 random lines of code and release it as a new distro, then wait for the complaints.

I don't see a thing about crystals anywhere

Yeah, they are all using UNIX. Even the oh popular MAC iOS is an UNIX + FreeBSD abomination.

When you look at it, comparing it to the most popular systems today, Micro$oft is the only original one.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring 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.

Srry, I know that. What I don't understand is why Linux is so popularized and Unix is not. What, is Unix more primitive or Linux is just a more complex branch?
Why isn't Ubuntu, or Fedora, or Debian(and from what I know Ubuntu is based on Debian?) for example based on Unix, not on Linux?

UNIX is the base of the operating system, is like NT in Windows.
How i know, they are all Linux distributions, and they are all special for something.
I don't really know much about the depths of GNU/UNIX (to the detail).

Linux is actually a clone of the Unix operating system, it's not derived from Unix exactly. It's described as a "Unix-like" system.

And srry, please don't call it GNU/Linux. Stallman is a jackass and nobody should listen to him

GNU as it currently stands is only the utilities and tools that are included in pretty much every distro of Linux and other Unix-like systems. All Linux distros include both GNU and non-GNU software, while a true GNU system would not include non-GNU software.

The actual GNU kernel (and therefore the operating system as a whole as that is fully dependant on the kernel) is in alpha stage and has been in development for almost 20 years. Aside from that most of your stuff is right.