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#16 Post by pmd » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:39 pm

Quarko wrote:the Free Software Foundation's preferred name GNU/Linux.
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#17 Post by Quarko » Thu Sep 08, 2011 7:21 pm

pmd wrote:
Quarko wrote:the Free Software Foundation's preferred name GNU/Linux.
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Yes, but my point was that "Linux" is the name of the OS. And "Linux Kernel" is the name of kernel it's built around.
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#18 Post by Spl@ » Thu Sep 08, 2011 9:37 pm

Let's see… “Debian GNU/Linuxâ€￾. :P

Strictly, Linux is the kernel, and the OS is (often) GNU/Linux. But you describe the common usage sufficiently accurately.
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