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linux is the kernel gnu is the full operating system
by kachapopopow 9mo ago
linux is the kernel gnu is the full operating system
- bigstrat2003 9mo agoLinux is both the name for the kernel and the full operating system.
- andrewmcwatters 9mo agoLinux is definitely not a "full operating system." Here's Linux built on GitHub Actions, with Grub[1], and you can't do anything with it. I include a reference init that does nothing, per kernel.org. 17.8 MB image. GNU is by every practical measure, everything else. People memed on Stallman for the whole GNU/Linux naming, but he's basically right. There's also Android/Linux, that another user mentioned, and some distributions which don't use a GNU userland at all. But the wide majority of people are using GNU/Linux, or some ecosystem derivative of it, like people using GNOME, which was formerly a part of the GNU project. [1]: https://github.com/andrewmcwatters/linux-workflow https://github.com/andrewmcwatters/linux-workflow
- jdkfkgkkdbkd 9mo agoNobody cares! ”Linux” is used as a name of the OS.
- kachapopopow 9mo agoyah it's silly, linux typically refers to "everything" using the linux kernel. Aka Linux.