Linux or GNU/Linux

Gordon Messmer yinyang at eburg.com
Sun Aug 5 01:40:15 UTC 2012


On 08/03/2012 06:09 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> While it's technically true to call such distros
> "GNU/Linux", such a label ignores a large portion of the origin and
> richness of those distros.

I don't think that's true.  Linux is the kernel.  GNU/Linux is the 
(POSIX) operating system.  Fedora is the distribution.  Saying that 
Fedora is built on the GNU/Linux operating system doesn't convey that it 
doesn't also include additional software.


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