Conversation

What you are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/‘Windows Subsystem for Linux’, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system.
42
597
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system.
4
88
There really is a Linux, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself.
4
93
Linux can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU.
13
97
Show replies
On one hand it sounds like you just put down a paper bag with a large dollop of model airplane glue inside it yet on the other hand you’re totally correct. 🤔
3
Not only is GNU Not Unix, but Linux is not Linux, but in fact a reimplemented set of Linux ABI under a completely proprietary license to satisfy people who need, um, encapsulated differentatious compatibility.
12