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This Is Why I Use Linux



Mac and Windows are the automatic transmissions of the computing world.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!



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18 Comments

  1. I would try linux but most of my apps i use don't support it so I'll have to stick on windows. Also, i just personally like the ui in windows more.

  2. Love that people STILL call it gnu/linux, even though I run more KDE on my system then GNU, red hat has contributed so much to linux. How about red hat/linux, kde/linux?
    Its genially just stupid and is 100% a ego thing from the gnu foundation.

    Just unite under 1 name, linux.

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