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How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

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Re: How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

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Post by saalweachter »

fctorial wrote: post #22
bandie91 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what people call "Linux" is much more "GNU" (system tools, commands, shell, system programms, libraries, stadards, conventions) and less "Linux" (only the kernel).

Linux sounds cooler.

Honestly I think this is probably like 90% of the reason Linux won the naming war to describe open-source Unix-like systems.

You can tell people your startup's web-servers are running on Linux, a new open-source OS written by a guy named Linus, and the conversation stops there, or you can tell them they're running on the guh-nu, or maybe it's just "nu", OS, and depending on which pronunciation you have chosen either start with a bit of the "Who's on first" routine where you try to explain "no, the name of the OS is new" or dive right into explaining that the answer to the question "Well, if guh-new is not Unix, what is it?" is Unix, and in either case your investors have already decided to pass on your company because you made them feel stupid and not in the way that made them think you were smart.

Re: How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

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Post by scoutt »

1 to tell the user to file a super extensive bugzilla ticket backtracking all the history of the light bulb like on/off frequency, usage, etc.

1 who says they should rewire the entire house electrical wiring in Rust.

1 who says that more light bulbs can be found in the usual place: a drawer called /etc, or /usr, or /usr/local/, or /opt, or...

Re: How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

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Post by sabon »

1298.

The article doesn't answer how many, so I've counted.

It takes 1298 GNU/Linux users to change a light bulb.

Including the father of the first user, excluding the 6 that complained, and then complained again (they're counted only once). And also, assuming there's no overlap between all the groups, which is probably unrealistic.

Re: How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

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Post by drran »

jankotek wrote: post #69
yetihehe wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After debugging configuration error for last 7 days, where even logs didn't help because manufacturer decided to use reference clock from different pin which was not documented officially to be able to do this - moder IoT sucks, because chip manufacturers release documentation as confidential and then firmware is implemented by hardware guys. As a programmer who can design some simple digital circuits, I could very m…

In IoT only one person is needed to change a light bulb. But it will take 7 days of soldering, debuging and reverse engineering :)

Clean room reverse engineering requires two.

Re: How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?

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Post by makeworld »

sabon wrote: post #77

1298. The article doesn't answer how many, so I've counted. It takes 1298 GNU/Linux users to change a light bulb. Including the father of the first user, excluding the 6 that complained, and then complained again (they're counted only once). And also, assuming there's no overlap between all the groups, which is probably unrealistic.

So it takes 1299 then, if we include you.
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