• RCMaehl [Any]@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I use Alpine, a distro that doesn’t include the GNU Coreutils, or any other GNU code. It’s Linux, but it’s not GNU+Linux

    • John Richard@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It does include coreutils and other GNU packages, but they aren’t installed by default. This is perfect for a server install or Docker image where Busybox is just enough to accomplish most basic tasks, but if I was using it for a desktop OS then you better believe I’m installing the GNU wget and other packages so that I can follow redirects and what not.