Don't be rude and I won't. Also reading my sentence in its context will help. The parent thread read "Linux was a kernel that the GNU project added well after

Don't be rude and I won't. Also reading my sentence in its context will help. The parent thread read "Linux was a kernel that the GNU project added well after both projects were underway". I was highlighting the fact that GNU is not responsible for the GNU/Linux combination in the sense that most distributions are not endorsded by the GNU project. Debian still has a GNU/Hurd version which got a little more official just a couple of months ago. They also have a GNU/kFreeBSD version.