Julia EvansFeb 15, 2025

this feels like a silly thing to say but even though i’ve been using linux since 2004 I feel like i’m learning recently that the impact of the GNU project’s software (and its design decisions) on me is even bigger than I thought

like even just the fact that (afaik) many of them used Emacs has an impact on me today

(please no “it’s GNU/Linux”)

Show threadAmber Feb 15, 2025
@b0rk are we talking about the cultural impact? Or are we talking about just the amount of GNU project software (even if it's not called GNU $SOFTWARE). I mean I was surprised to see that Orca is not "GNU Orca" and it's instead a part of the GNOME project https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/index.html.en
Orca Screen Reader

Show threadAmber Feb 15, 2025
@b0rk and then of course there is the reverse of "this uses the gnu name but isn't actually part of gnu anymore?" like https://www.gnutls.org/
GnuTLS

Show threadAlfred M. Szmidt

@puppygirlhornypost2 GNUTLS is part of the GNU project, and maintained by Simon Josefsson.

@b0rk

Feb 16, 2025 at 4:27pmWeb
Show threadAmber Feb 16, 2025
@amszmidt @b0rk weird I thought there was a falling out
Show threadAlfred M. SzmidtFeb 16, 2025
@puppygirlhornypost2 There was. But water under the bridge….