As of my estimate, the GNU/Linux copypasta was created on /g/ somewhere between late Nov 2008 and late March 2009. The lower bound is Ten Billion thread archive being empty, the upper bound is first outside appearance of the copypasta: https://web.archive.org/web/20091031140239/https://xercestech.com/linux-not-gnulinux.geekAnon, if you somehow have a thread dump of /g/ board made in early 2009, please grep it for any “interject for a moment” appearances.
Why? It's probably one of the most annoying /g/ shitposts. "Works on my machine", but longer.
>>106520785And one of the most popular outside the /g/ too. Wanna find the source for the sake of it — internet history research something something.
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>>106520870I've literally never seen it outside of /g/, except for the most freetarded YT channels - which is obviously just /g/tards anyway.
>>106522096It’s so not outside of /g/ that the man himself had to write “A quotation circulates on the Internet, attributed to me, but it wasn't written by me.”the fucker uses web via email and even he knows
>>106523231>its so not outside of /g/>that a brainless commie vaxxtard jew whos worshipped by /g/ and bothered by /g/ daily>said something about itOne day, when you realise just how tiny your niche is, you'll probably neck yourself in embarrassmet for posting this brain damage.
>>106523685what MY fucking niche is it, you buffoon? i don’t give two shits about hippie free-as-in-freeeeedom bullshit or Guhnoo or RMS Moisha Stallmann or whatever you 24/7 /g/ooner overreact to. I see this fucking shitpost once a month at least and I want to know where it came from, exactly. ever felt similar urge?
>>106523685Look at the Russian cockholster foaming at the mouth. I can't wait to watch it die screaming in some drone video.
>>106524038keep bumping
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
I saw Richard Stallman at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw Stallman trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
