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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 03:50:53 JST 翠星石

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   @waltercool @freetar @waifu >Links to wikipedia.
   Wikipedia is known to be full of lies.
   
   Linux is the selected name of the Linux project, which was to develop a kernel and did little more than that.
   
   It's completely ludicrous and totally incorrect to refer to software that is not Linux, as "Linux", as no matter how popular an error is, that doesn't make it the reality.
   
   In no other OS has the whole OS been named after the name that was used to name the kernel.
   
   
   It's like getting a rose and calling it a pen - the rose will smell just as sweet, but people will proceed to try to write with the "pen" and get confused as hell.
   
   GNU only asks that you refer to GNU as GNU and Linux as Linux and when GNU is combined with Linux, to refer to it as; GNU/Linux, or GNU+Linux or GNU with Linux or LiGNUx or just GNU, as all of those would be correct names.