I came here to say the same thing. GNU provides user-land applications and libraries. I have a hard time seeing their jump to "GNU operating system". There's

I came here to say the same thing. GNU provides user-land applications and libraries. I have a hard time seeing their jump to "GNU operating system". There's a LOT of code that makes up a *nix distribution and GNU, I'm sure, is a fairly small part of the overall code even though it's a pretty important one.