> Some people insist that Linux distributions be called GNU/Linux, not just Linux. The reason is that, strictly speaking, Linux is just a kernel and, when you a

> Some people insist that Linux distributions be called GNU/Linux, not just Linux. The reason is that, strictly speaking, Linux is just a kernel and, when you are using a Linux system, you are primarily interacting with the GNU userland. While I sympathize with that idea, I’m not the one to adopt the GNU/Linux name, in part because most Linux distributions today ship with software developed by many more vendors than just GNU. In this post, however, I use the GNU/Linux term because saying Linux alone would be unfair to Linux. Hear, hear!