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title: GNU/Linux or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
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categories: [Linux]
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{{ "
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# It just isn't only Linux...
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux,
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is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
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Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
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of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
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utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
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Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
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without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
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which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
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not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
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There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
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part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system
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that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
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The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself;
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it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is
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normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
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is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux"
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distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
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