@kernellogger A lot of people are indeed confused and unfortunately almost nobody steps up and resolves the confusion.

Many of those who do know better love publishing books about "operating systems", except those books only cover the kernel component and ignores the rest of what is required to get an operational system, as that's too difficult and not exciting enough.

The problem with writing "Linux kernel" is that it builds on the confusion that Linux is more than a kernel, as most OS's don't give the kernel a particular name and so the typical naming scheme is; the <OS name> kernel, for example; the NT kernel or just NT kernel, the "Free"BSD kernel, the "open"BSD kernel, the MacOS kernel (it's called XNU, but most won't recognize that), or MINIX's kernel, or alternately; the kernel of <OS>.

If you want to avoid such confusion, three possible options are to write; "the kernel, Linux", "Linux, the kernel" or more efficiently, to point out that Linux is only a kernel once (with either a sentence or by writing "Linux, the kernel" once) and then you'll be able to write Linux to mean Linux without confusion (hopefully then many people will start following your example and many others will learn the truth).


Some editors on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia are unfortunately dedicated into turning it into Wikipedia, the proprietary encyclopedia by filling it with corporate propaganda and writing "Linux" where GNU/Linux or BusyBox/Linux or systemd/Linux or Android should go;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS:LINUX?useskin=monobook#Linux_vs._GNU/Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux/Name?useskin=monobook
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux/Referring_to_this_article?useskin=monobook
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Linux/Archive_41?useskin=monobook#Page_move:_GNU/Linux

Some of the sort even tried claiming that GNU isn't an OS while Linux is; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:GNU?useskin=monobook#GNU_is_not_an_operating_system;_GNU_is_not_GNU_Hurd

I must be an extremist for thinking this, but I believe a free encyclopedia, full of freedom, should care more about the truth than the popularity of continuing a proprietary error.

There should be a page for Linux (with maybe a subtitle "Did you mean; systemd/Linux"), a page for GNU/Linux, a page for BusyBox/Linux, a page for systemd/Linux and one for Android.

A landing page titled "*/Linux" (or if the technical issue with the article name doesn't allow "Systems using Linux as the kernel") listing the GNU/Linux, BusyBox/Linux, systemd/Linux and Android articles, with maybe a few sentences that refer to less common combinations (maybe even cases of the mythical "Linux modified into an OS" that I haven't seen yet, but I figure is possible).