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DateTue, 5 Mar 1996 22:37:28 -0500
FromRichard Stallman <>
SubjectLinux isn't an operating system
    on NASA TV last week indicate that computers running under the Linux
    operating system are being used on STS-75.  Linux is powerful 32-bit
    multiuser, multitasking operating system similar to Unix in many ways
    except cost and licensing....
    Linux was designed a few short years ago by Linus Torvalds, a graduate...

This article makes a common mistake: confusing the whole operating
system with the kernel.  Linus Torvalds wrote the kernel, Linux.  A
whole operating systems consists of Linux and many other programs,
which were written by a great many people.

There are a number of whole operating systems using the Linux kernel,
Most of them are more or less close variants of the GNU system, so I
recommend the term "Linux-based GNU system" for them.

I'm going to talk to the author of the article about this distinction.



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