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You are right - in a sense this IS the reason to use GNU/LinuxYou are right - in a sense this IS the reason to use GNU/LinuxPosted Apr 5, 2008 14:44 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: They call it GNU/Linux - thanks Sun! by oblio Parent article: Sun Microsystems' Next Linux Move (Seeking Alpha)
And there are BSD licensed version for all of those, except GCC, GDB and a few others. Yup. That's exactly why it's better to use GNU/Linux name! For example Android is Linux-based system but not GNU/Linux system. And since the GNU glue is gone it feels quite different then "normal" Linux (really GNU/Linux) system. The same it true for OpenWrt and other systems without GNU userland. Once upon time the story way simple: we can omit GNU in GNU/Linux since it's there by default. It was even justifiable back then. But today people are talking about "triumph of the GNU on mobile phones" when they talk about Android exactly because they don't distinguish GNU and GNU/Linux. Today we have all four combinations in real use: nonGNU/nonLinux (like Windows), nonGNU/Linux (like Android), GNU/Linux (most Linuxes out there) and even GNU/nonLinux (like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD or Gentoo/FreeBSD). In many ways Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is closer to Debian GNU/Linux then to Android so GNU/Linux name makes perfect sense. And yes, the main reason to use GNU/Linux are two facts:
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