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: Actually, Linux is just the kernel of an operating system. Linus Torvalds ''is'' the one that started the Linux kernel. Richard Stallman (RMS) had nothing to do with that. What is incorrect, but unavoidable these days due to marketing types and ''the press'', is to call Linux an operating system. What makes an operating system is the kernel (boot code), drivers (may be in the kernel or modules) and additional software (the GNU project tools). Technically correct folks will call the blend of these parts GNU/Linux but the marketing and press types will continue to just use Linux. I believe we are not going to be able to change that trend here but we should be technically correct '''and''' give the correct people their due consideration. For Linux, the kernel, that would be Torvalds. --[[User:Eracc|Gene]] 15:04, 20 December 2007 (EST)
: Actually, Linux is just the kernel of an operating system. Linus Torvalds ''is'' the one that started the Linux kernel. Richard Stallman (RMS) had nothing to do with that. What is incorrect, but unavoidable these days due to marketing types and ''the press'', is to call Linux an operating system. What makes an operating system is the kernel (boot code), drivers (may be in the kernel or modules) and additional software (the GNU project tools). Technically correct folks will call the blend of these parts GNU/Linux but the marketing and press types will continue to just use Linux. I believe we are not going to be able to change that trend here but we should be technically correct '''and''' give the correct people their due consideration. For Linux, the kernel, that would be Torvalds. --[[User:Eracc|Gene]] 15:04, 20 December 2007 (EST)
:: You can't have an operation system without the kernel. I can come very close to building a distro that uses next to no code developed by the FSF. Don't get me wrong, I love the FSF, but the whole GNU/Linux nomenclature rubs me the wrong way. --[[User:D3matt|D3matt]] 22:51, 11 October 2009 (EDT)
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