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Pedro Côrte-Real
Personal blog · pedrocr.pt/textsystemsphilosophy
Pedro Côrte-Real's personal blog at pedrocr.pt covers systems and philosophy. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Microsoft's “Love” of Linux”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pedro Côrte-Real's posts on how much of GNU/Linux is actually GNU code, and on Microsoft's relationship with Linux. Commenters cite them as supporting points in discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Microsoft's “Love” of Linux2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-11-21
- /text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-08-21
What Hacker News says?
For all the good they are doing, you'd wonder there's some alterior motive. Reminded me to re-read this article: http://pedrocr.pt/text/microsofts-love-of-linux/
Comment linking /text/microsofts-love-of-linux/
on “Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu”Submitted Microsoft's “Love” of Linux as a story · 470 points
HN discussionGNU is not an operating system, but a collection of mostly commandline tools. If you look at Linux distributions, GNU ist just a relatively small part if you look at lines of code. And of that most is GCC and GDB: http://pedrocr.pt/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux/
Comment linking /text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux/
on “The first Bitcoin Cash block has been mined”Submitted On Societies and Their Running as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLike everyone seems to be mentioning this post is really about "you should have automatic builds" and make is just an incidental. redo[1] is another interesting make replacement that keeps most of the good points of make (e.g., simple and shell based), while having a more powerful dependency mechanism. It's even compatible with make itself allowing you to move a part of a recursively built project to redo, while hav…
Comment linking /text/preliminary-results-open-source-evolution
on “Why Use Make”Submitted On quality and what it looks like as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttp://pedrocr.pt/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux/
Comment linking /text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux/
on “GCC is moving to git”Submitted A better base for open-source IPTV tools as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> if you look at all the packages in e.g. debian or fedora you'll find that the largest percentage by far is written by the GNU. No: http://pedrocr.pt/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux.html
Comment linking /text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux.html
on “Perl/Linux, a Linux distribution where all programs are written in Perl”