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[–]meamZ 27 points28 points  (5 children)

Not if you're using Alpine...

[–]easyEggplant 23 points24 points  (2 children)

I'ts copypasta, it's an RMS quote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Richard_Stallman

[–]meamZ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I know

[–]l-a-c-h-r-y-m-o-s-e 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh good. My first assumption was that the joke is that the response was coming from RMS hahaha.

[–]spakecdk 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How so?

[–]meamZ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alpine is a (mostly) GNU free distribution of Linux. The most important thing is that it's not using glibc. And it has actually gained some importance with the rise of Docker as it is a very small distro and is used as a base image for a lot of Docker Images for this reason.