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"GNU :gnu: / Linux :linux:" not just "Linux :linux:" (Richard Stallman quote)... 

"GNU / Linux" not just "Linux"....

- Richard Stallman [video link below to exact part of talk]

redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=

ℹ️ Remember Gnu + Linux are together ! (Antelope + Penguin animals together!)

:gnu: :linux: not just :linux:

"GNU / Linux" not just "Linux"....

Gnu :gnu: <--------------------
Noun: gnu
📖 Large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail

Penguin :linux: <---------------
Noun: penguin
📖 Short-legged flightless birds of cold southern especially Antarctic regions having webbed feet and wings modified as flippers

⬇️ Basic History / Video Notes:

GNU system almost completed before 1992, But needed the Kernel.
Linux Torvold re-released it in Feb 1992 as free software. (Kernel was proprietary in 1991 but he re-released it to be free in 1992)


For Freedoms not just

"GNU :gnu: / Linux :linux: " not just "Linux"....

:gnu: :linux: not just :linux:

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@freeschool There exists GNU/Linux operating systems but Linux itself is also an operating system not just a kernel. It doesn't require GNU to boot. It sure doesn't require it to allocate memory or to do any critical operating system task.. Replace just the coreutils with anything else and Linux still works fine

@wick3dr0se Ah,
how would I word what I said before better? Perhaps exactly as you said and that Linux means multiple things and define both?

Do you have examples links of how to frame / say it / tell the difference?

Thanks

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