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Comment by AsyncAwait

You forgot C in there :-)

Anyway, this misses the point of the FSF in insisting on calling it GNU/Linux.

The point of the GNU is not to name every application that runs on your system, but to say that you're running the Linux kernel AND the GNU userland to have a functional system, i.e. that GNU is the second half of a complete system, GNU/Linux.

You don't need Apache to have a functional system. You do need libc etc. to have a functional system and when these are provided by GNU, I think it's fair to call it GNU/Linux.

parent AsyncAwait 9 years ago

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