@Parker Banks The initial bootloader was hand toggled into the computer, which then ran the tape/punched card bootloader, which then run the machine code programmed assembler, which then was used to assemble the assembly programmed assembler, which then was used to assemble the assembly programmed compiler, which then was used to compile the programming language compiler.

@nprofile1q... Install GNU.

@mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignutius: :descartes: :stargate: @just cell The goal of evil anubis is to stop humans, but allow subhumans and scrapers past.

@nprofile1q... I was blocked by GrapheneOS for pointing out all the proprietary malware is backdoored.

@gatita con frijoles :wormkisser: :labrysSickle: Should have installed GNUboot.

It's just grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

@woodland creature Always was.

@feld @nprofile1q... You are cringe.

@Mysterious charmer @nprofile1q... Alpine is a GNU/Linux distro.

There is some claim that Alpine doesn't use GNU coreutils (one GNU package out of 500+) and that somehow makes it not GNU - but both claims are false.

Alpine is designed to use GNU coreutils, except there is a cut down installer without coreutils just to be edgy (practically, the user goes decides to stop torturing themselves and installs coreutils later).

All of such false claims are dependent on the user thinking it's; "all Linux" and not actually looking at it and realizing it's GNU/Linux.


https://www.alpinelinux.org/downloads/
>GnuPG signatures right there on the installation page.
Looks pretty GNU to me, but lets keep going.

>"Just enough to get you started. Network connection is required."
It's clear that the standard install image is just enough to get you started for the install of any of the missing GNU packages.

7z l alpine-standard-3.23.0-x86_64.iso
boot/grub
boot/grub/efi.img

There's the GNU GRUB OS - it's clearly GNU/Linux, but lets keep going.

cd apks/x86_64
ls gnutls-3.8.11-r0.apk libunistring-1.4.1-r0.apk ncurses-terminfo-base-6.5_p20251123-r0.apk wget-1.25.0-r2.apk gmp-6.3.0-r4.apk libncursesw-6.5_p20251123-r0.apk libidn2-2.3.8-r0.apk

That's a lot of GNU packages for something not GNU and that's ignoring the GNU dependencies for all the other packages.


But there's an "Extended" install image as well; "Most common used packages included. Suitable for routers and servers." - which seems to in fact be what you would use if you don't want pretty much nothing to be included, just to be edgy.


cd apks/x86_64

Just in one pass I found;
ls coreutils-9.8-r1.apk coreutils-env-9.8-r1.apk coreutils-fmt-9.8-r1.apk coreutils-sha512sum-9.8-r1.apk gdbm-1.26-r0.apk gmp-6.3.0-r4.apk gnutls-3.8.11-r0.apk grub-2.12-r8.apk grub-bios-2.12-r8.apk grub-efi-2.12-r8.apk libgcc-15.2.0-r2.apk libidn2-2.3.8-r0.apk libncursesw-6.5_p20251123-r0.apk ncurses-terminfo-6.5_p20251123-r0.apk ncurses-terminfo-base-6.5_p20251123-r0.apk parted-3.6-r2.apk readline-8.3.1-r0.apk tar-1.35-r4.apk wget-1.25.0-r2.apk

Yes, that's right, Alpine GNU/Linux ships GNU coreutils, GNU grub, GNU ncurses, GMP, libgcc, GNU libidn2, GNU parted, GNU readline, GNU tar and GNU wget by default!

All the other packages look very similar to what comes with the default install of a typical GNU/Linux, a lot of proprietary software is included too.

(There's even Quagga there, which is an interesting choice and well that is still GNU code, as it was forked from GNU zebra).


Therefore Alpine is a GNU/Linux distro (with the only large change seemingly being musl instead of glibc - while GNU coreutils is used and even the GNU GRUB OS is used), although there is a barebones BusyBox/Linux installer just to be edgy (but of course still has GNU in it).

@blubka @oshy Next level; you wouldn't host a private minetest server.

Even more illegal, as it respects the users freedom.

@woodland creature iIt's astonishing to me that there are people out there who believe that LLM's and slop image degenerators are AI, even considering that LLM's can't count the number of r's in strawberry, or complete any task that requires intelligence (sometimes getting a correct result is not practically useful, as needing to prompt and then check the correctness of the output, is slower than just doing the task).

Considering that permutations of reddit comments and degenerated existing text is only practically useful for entertainment purposes (microsoft has admitted this in their copilot terms), it would be utterly foolish to think that; "civilization will be transformed", instead of the bubble exploding when reality catches up.

@certified not computer toucher aetios >Linux library paths.
>Look inside.
>GNU library paths.
Free software games run fine on GNU/Linux-libre.