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Linux is a class of operating systems which use the Linux kernel. Referring to Linux as an OS, is a perfectly fine thing to generically mean 'an OS which uses L
by richardwhiuk 10y ago
Linux is a class of operating systems which use the Linux kernel. Referring to Linux as an OS, is a perfectly fine thing to generically mean 'an OS which uses Linux as a kernel' and has an agreed common meaning.
Almost no Operating System is precisely GNU/Linux - most have vim, an X server, GNOME or KDE, 7zip etc. And the argument that GNU is a more principal argument is incorrect.
- bonzini 10y agoUhm, you're saying GNOME, the GNU Network Object Model Environment, isn't GNU?
- richardwhiuk 10y agoGNOME is developed by the GNOME project, which as far as I can tell isn't actually part of the FSF. I don't considered everything licensed under the GNU license, or formerly associated with the GNU project / FSF to be 'GNU'.