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by pjmlp 508 days ago
And this is why, eventually one gets tired of all reboots, and endless variants on Distrowatch, get a computer at BestBuy, Mediamarkt, Dixons, or whatever is the local chain, run GNU/Linux on a VM, and be done with it.
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The Chimera Linux team strives to downplay the lack of GNU because they do not want the politics.

For me, one of my favourite things about Chimera Linux is that it is both everything I want from Linux and 100% immune to being called GNU/Linux.

Chimera Linux: no Glibc, no GNU utils, no GCC, and no Systemd. As a user, I am finally free.

We should consider “freedom from being labelled GNU/Linux” as “the 5th freedom”.

Basically, had it not been for AT&T lawsuit, or Microsoft losing interest with either Xenix or Windows NT/POSIX subsystem, and Linux would hardly matter.

You're pointing out, in other words, that UNIX/POSIX is what matters, regardless of the package.