J’aimerais vous interrompre pour un moment. Ce que vous appelez Linux est, en réalité, GNU/Linux ou, comme je me suis mis·e à l’appeler récemment, GNU plus Linux. Linux n’est pas un système d’exploitation en soi, mais plutôt un autre composant libre d’un système GNU pleinement fonctionnel rendu utile par les librairies GNU, les utilitaires du shell et les composantes systèmes vitales, formant un système d’exploitation complet tel que défini par POSIX.
Plusieurs ordinateurs utilisent chaque jour une version modifiée du système GNU, sans s’en rendre compte. A travers une tournure particulière des événements, la version de GNU qui est largement utilisée aujourd’hui est souvent appelée Linux, et plusieurs de ses utilisateur·ices ne sont pas au courant qu’il s’agit pratiquement du système GNU, développé par le projet GNU.
Linux existe vraiment, et ces gens s’en servent, mais c’est juste une partie du système qu’iels utilisent. Linux est le noyau; le programme dans le système qui alloue les ressources de la machine aux autres programmes que vous exécutez. Le noyau est essentiel au système d’exploitation, mais inutile par lui-même; il ne peut fonctionner que dans le contexte d’un système d’exploitation complet. Linux est normalement utilisé en combinaison avec le système d’exploitation GNU: le système au complet est pratiquement GNU avec Linux ajouté, ou GNU/Linux. Et toutes les soi-disant distributions Linux sont en réalité des distributions de GNU/Linux!
- Richard M. Sgrandhomme (probablement)
I fell for a similar (but less) obvious joke on my first Linux installation back in 1995. That one used dd instead of rm. I lost a lot of code that I had written. After that, I’ve failed to see the humor in this kind of joke. There’s always the risk that someone new doesn’t understand it’s a joke, and tries it out.
It happened in this very post, actually. Serves them right for French bashing.
The rest of the time, I’d agree with you, I’ve never done this joke nor condone it.
I agree. The / directory may receive special considerations, and it may be extra protected, but once I was doing something with rm -r and …/* in some folder inside my home directory… it wasn’t fun.
I prefer the less harmful “alt+F4” joke, though most people know what that one does by now.
You are not funny. Your parents are not funny. Your grand parents were not funny. In fact, you have a long standing ancestry of non funny bastards.
What does it actually do?
These are unix/linux terminal actions.
‘sudo’ controls access rights, so it’s effectively like Windows admin rights. People typically wouldn’t be allowed to use sudo unless they own the system or are some kind of system administrator (like in a workplace).
The ‘rm’ is the remove function, or deleting files or folders.
‘-rf’ are two options you can specify with the ‘rm’ to . The ‘-r’ part means recursive, and effectively conforms to the ‘rm’ you do in fact want to delete a directory (folder). Normally rm would not, and rmdir I think only works on empty directories. The ‘-f’ option forces removal of all items without any prompts for confirmation for individual items found for removal.
Then the ‘/*’ is the file and or directory path you want to remove. In this case it’s the top of the system. The entire statement is essentially a joke about a full delete of your computer.
So kinda like the delete System32 joke but more nuclear?
Eats itself inside out
If it were on an old installation of linux, it would delete everything on the file system, from every disk attached.
Modern Linux systems require an additional flag to explicitly stay that you want to nuke your system.
Modern Linux systems require an additional flag to explicitly stay that you want to nuke your system.
Are you sure?
Something-something trees are an invasive species so add --no-preserve-root
Have you ever tasted Root preserves? It’s awful it tastes like wood, no sugar. I always enter --no-preserve-root. A little bit ruin’s the whole batch.
You’re deleting everything but root, so not needed.
Anything but root and hidden elements directly below root.
You need to add --no-preserve-root as it means “no, preserve root(language)”
If you’re dumb enough to hate the French, you deserve what’s about to happen to you.
I don’t hate the french I just gotta free up some space by deleting the language pack :(
This frees up all space.
Even better!
fr!
French is bloat 👍
Language pack du fromage
Et le baguette.
Feel free to remove the language pack then, I suppose.
(You’ll lose 50% of the English vocabulary, btw)
I’ve never been so wrong.
Me
OMG YOU ACTUALLY DID IT XDDDDDDDDDD
You gotta eat a baguette sandwich with the French cheese of your choice, with a side of French red wine as penance.
Mais pourquoi vouloir supprimer le paquet linguistique français ?
I assume this comment is in French since all I see is a blank comment, because I have deleted the bloat language pack.
Thanks Linux tech tips!
