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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