The post on which the comment is, it's about init reaping orphans. Gilles mentioned in a comment to my post that the reaper process is pid 1, and JdeBP linked to his answer in another post which shows that is not necessarily the case.
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Hello. I am asking this question on ubuntu chat as well,,, but I think it is more gneral linux related.
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I am running a xubuntu vm. Default bashrc and everything. My PS1 is gray in the form of `user@host:rel_path$` . However, if I do `. ~/.bashrc` it changes colors. Why does this happen? Shouldn't my local bashrc take precedent over the ones set in `/etc` ?
@HunterStevens I'm not sure I understand the question - but it sounds like a reasonable one for the site. If you source .bashrc then it will have an effect if it was not already sourced. More context, please.
While I knew for quite some time the existence of Hurd, and its mission as the official GNU Operating System kernel, I was wondering how come Linux is not embraced as the official GNU kernel over the years, seeing as it is in a much better state than the Hurd?
Linux has been, more or less, servi...
I did scroll up and you never explained why it would be off topic.
It seems OK to me.
Granted, it's not about *nix itself and more about GNU but Faheem's answer is not very opinion based so, personally, I'd let it stand. I would understand why others might vote to close it though.
Current [on-topic] page has no clarification about whether historical questions like this are on-topic or not.
While discussing about this on chat-room, I found that there is no problem with such question and we can allow this type question.
So, I am asking for changing the on-topic pag...