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Since the 1990s there is an ongoing controversy whether computer operating systems that use GNU software and the Linux kernel should be referred to as "GNU/Linux" or "Linux" systems.[1]
Proponents of the term Linux argue that it is far more commonly used by the public and media[2][3] and that it serves as a generic term for systems that combine that kernel with software from multiple other sources,[4] while proponents of the term GNU/Linux note that GNU alone would be just as good a name for GNU variants which combine the GNU operating system software with software from other sources.[5]
The term GNU/Linux is promoted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and its founder Richard Stallman. Their reasoning is that the operating system is seen as a modified version of the GNU operating system. Linux as a kernel is just a part of an operating system, whereas the whole operating system is basically the GNU system.[6][7] Several distributions of operating systems containing the Linux kernel use the name that the FSF prefers, such as Debian,[8] Trisquel[9] and Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.[10] Others claim that GNU/Linux is a useful name to make a distinction between those and Linux distributions such as Android and Alpine Linux.
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The shared commonality of the kernel is what defines a system's membership in the Linux family; the differing OSS applications that can interact with the common kernel are what differentiate Linux distributions.
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- ^ "Trisquel GNU/Linux". Retrieved 22 February 2017.
- ^ "Parabola GNU/Linux-libre". Retrieved 22 February 2017.