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Ghost • Edited

I must address to sometimes pedantic GNU/Linux users that correct other about the inclusion of GNU in the name (not alluding the author who I suspect was trying to not offend those I talk about); although technically Linux is just the kernel, that is the defacto name, whether RMS likes or not; and to call the entire OS GNU/Linux is also not accurate, the OS is not just the kernel and GNU tools, there is more than that in it and also, nowdays not all Linux OS include GNU, many replaced the GNU tools for Busybox, you can replace glibc with musl, etc. so to me "Linux" is a good enough umbrella term. If we would be really pedantic we should use Linux OS or Linux/OS or maybe Linux/glibc|musl/GNU toolkit|busybox/Systemd|OpenRC/... maybe there "they" will be happy :)

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Rubin

Yeah