Re: GNU/Linux Naming

[Tim Smith]

On 2007-12-05, Noah Slater <nslater@bytesexual.org> wrote:
> Of course, the proper name for the operating system is GNU and Linux
> provides one of it's kernels. The combination of these two words is
> GNU/Linux. If you used Sun's kernel you would call the system
> GNU/Solarix and if you used the BSD operating system (as an
> alternative to GNU) you would be running BSD/Solarix.
>
> There are many different variations "out there" and they all have
> different names. If you're running Debian/Ubuntu/Gentoo/RedHat/Suse
> you're probably running a GNU/Linux system. If you're running OS X

Except most of those aren't GNU systems.  Go read the definition of the
GNU system at gnu.org, and you'll see that most of them do not meet it.
They are non-GNU systems that happen to have all the components of the
GNU system included, but also contain proprietary non-free components
that are not allowed in the GNU system.