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by david_draco 2017 days ago
Only almost everything of the programs (ls, grep, bash, gcc, etc). Linux is just the kernel. Stallman lead development of most of the shell environment you use today.
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Given that the kernel will/could expect to work without the programs, more or less, why it isn't Linux/GNU then.

Linux is a kernel, the rest are just a programs.

The programs do the useful work, the rest is just the kernel.
if you use WSL1 you have all of GNU and zero Linux for instance
that's why it should have been called GSW (GNU system for Windows)
But the GNU stuff sits on top of WSL which implements(ed) Linux system calls.
GNU Hurd will be ready any day now
I'm using exa, rg, fish and clang though ;)