@mischievoustomato Linux is like the transmission of the car - it's required, but mostly irrelevant as you can swap out the transmission with another one unless you want to use a limited set of specific transmission features.

Testing with Debian GNU/Hurd confirmed that most software doesn't care what kernel you use, as most free software in the Debian tree just worked after being compiled against Hurd's glibc.

Coreutils is only one GNU package out of 385; https://www.gnu.org/software/

Inclusion of GNU coreutils arguably makes a distro GNU/Linux, but there are also other more interesting GNU software that makes up the GNU OS.

The OS I use is GNU Emacs, what bootloader I use doesn't matter too much, whether that's GNU/Linux-libre or GNU/Hurd.


I has never asked anyone refer to Linux as "GNU/Linux", all I ask is that GNU is called GNU and Linux is called Linux.

Just like the story; 翠星石 said to them; give back to Linus what is Linus's (Linux) and to GNU what is GNU's.