Phase Alternating Line? What's "PAL" here?

Given the context probably Platform Abstraction Layer.

How is GNU/Linux different from Linux?

It is the same thing, just emphasizing that the OS is more than the kernel, and than the userland comes from the GNU project.

The latter had been designed to be a full OS but didn't have a functional kernel when Linux was released, and Torvalds adopted the GNU userland for his project.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd

Android/Linux also exists.

And Chimera Linux which is GNU-less. I guess you could call it FreeBSD/Linux but I think that'll just confuse people.

Stallman preferred nomenclature

linux is the kernel gnu is the full operating system

Linux is both the name for the kernel and the full operating system.

yah it's silly, linux typically refers to "everything" using the linux kernel. Aka Linux.

Linux is definitely not a "full operating system."

Here's Linux built on GitHub Actions, with Grub[1], and you can't do anything with it. I include a reference init that does nothing, per kernel.org. 17.8 MB image.

GNU is by every practical measure, everything else. People memed on Stallman for the whole GNU/Linux naming, but he's basically right. There's also Android/Linux, that another user mentioned, and some distributions which don't use a GNU userland at all.

But the wide majority of people are using GNU/Linux, or some ecosystem derivative of it, like people using GNOME, which was formerly a part of the GNU project.

[1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwatters/linux-workflow

Nobody cares! ”Linux” is used as a name of the OS.

Camera crashes? Never seen one. How did you do that?

I have no idea. A wild guess is that it might have to do with my setting option that preserves the last camera mode on re-launch, but I was never able to replicate a crash. I have not gotten a camera crash since I upgraded to iOS26. It only happened a few times, but once is too much.

The only issue I have with the camera now is that under low light conditions and fog, it will refuse to focus on a distant subject unless I cover the LIDAR.

I actually don't really care if he's a nice person or not, just like I don't care who the CEO of other car makers are. But for the record I think it's pretty silly to call him a Nazi.

How many Sieg Heils do you have to do consecutively before it’s NOT silly to be called a nazi? In your opinion

I saw more of an awkward guy doing a weird gesture, either because he was trying to be edgy, or he meant it as something else. He might even have done it as an ill advised joke because people were already calling him one.

It's silly to call him a nazi because he doesn't fit the profile well at all. It only works if you redefine nazi to be whatever you don't agree with at the moment. This might even be harmful, as it's an obvious strawman that provides cover for his real faults.

He denies being a nazi. We can take his word on that. One thing about nazis is they are weren't shy about their beliefs.

> because people were already calling him one.

Now if that's not the darndest coincidence.

Godwin's Law. But without the usual irony.

It took them so long? That doesn't look good for the audience. A bunch of vibecoded slop full of security holes should annoy faster.

Not for me.

It wants me to install some obscure AI stuff via curl | bash. No way in hell.

Apple obviously needs this to save themselves from bankruptcy.

+N. If I could, I would give you multiple upvotes.

I'm about to flee from macOS. Can't buy new Apple hardware any more because that will come with their atrocious new OS, and I have exactly zero hopes for any improvements in the future. So my next computer has to run Linux, and this article (and the other comments) is a very welcome aid for the transition.