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by JohnFen 1074 days ago
> Linux kernel is not entirety of Linux.

Technically, yes, it is. "Linux" refers to the kernel, not to all of the other stuff you need on top of the kernel for a fully-formed OS. Although "Linux" is not used in that sense in the world at large anymore.

But this distinction is why you see some people mentioning that you should say "Gnu/Linux" and the like when referring to the OS as whole.

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You are "not even wrong", but that's all
Linux is the kernel. Let’s not ignore Mr. Stallman’s contributions to open source software.
There are more users of Bionic Linux libc than there are of GNU glibc.

No, Linux is not always GNU.

And that is a non sequitur