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Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.</p> <p> Many users do not understand the difference between the kernel, which is Linux, and the whole system, which they also call “Linux.” The ambiguous use of the name doesn't help people understand. These users often think that Linus Torvalds developed the whole operating system in 1991, with a bit of help.</p> <p> Programmers generally know that Linux is a kernel. But since they have generally heard the whole system called “Linux” as well, they often envisage a history that would justify naming the whole system after the kernel. For example, many believe that once Linus Torvalds finished writing Linux, the kernel, its users looked around for other free software to go with it, and found that (for no particular reason) most everything necessary to make a Unix-like system was already available.</p> <p> What they found was no accident—it was the not-quite-complete GNU system. The available <a href="/philosophy/free-sw.html">free software</a> added up to a complete system because the GNU Project had been working since 1984 to make one. In the <a href="/gnu/manifesto.html"> GNU Manifesto</a> we set forth the goal of developing a free Unix-like system, called GNU. The <a href="/gnu/initial-announcement.html"> Initial Announcement</a> of the GNU Project also outlines some of the original plans for the GNU system. By the time Linux was started, GNU was almost finished.</p> <p> Most free software projects have the goal of developing a particular program for a particular job. 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So if you were going to pick a name for the system based on who wrote the programs in the system, the most appropriate single choice would be “GNU.”</p> <p> But that is not the deepest way to consider the question. The GNU Project was not, is not, a project to develop specific software packages. It was not a project <a href="/software/gcc/"> to develop a C compiler</a>, although we did that. It was not a project to develop a text editor, although we developed one. The GNU Project set out to develop <em>a complete free Unix-like system</em>: GNU.</p> <p> Many people have made major contributions to the free software in the system, and they all deserve credit for their software. But the reason it is <em>an integrated system</em>—and not just a collection of useful programs—is because the GNU Project set out to make it one. We made a list of the programs needed to make a <em>complete</em> free system, and we systematically found, wrote, or found people to write everything on the list. 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People could then <a href="https://ftp.funet.fi/pub/linux/historical/kernel/old-versions/RELNOTES-0.01"> combine Linux with the GNU system</a> to make a complete free system—a version of the GNU system which also contained Linux. The GNU/Linux system, in other words.</p> <p> Making them work well together was not a trivial job. Some GNU components <a class="ftn" href="#somecomponents">[3]</a> needed substantial change to work with Linux. Integrating a complete system as a distribution that would work “out of the box” was a big job, too. It required addressing the issue of how to install and boot the system—a problem we had not tackled, because we hadn't yet reached that point. Thus, the people who developed the various system distributions did a lot of essential work. But it was work that, in the nature of things, was surely going to be done by someone.</p> <p> The GNU Project supports GNU/Linux systems as well as <em>the</em> GNU system. 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Nowadays, the usual version of Linux contains nonfree programs too. These programs are intended to be loaded into I/O devices when the system starts, and they are included, as long series of numbers, in the “source code” of Linux. Thus, maintaining free GNU/Linux distributions now entails maintaining a <a href="https://directory.fsf.org/project/linux"> free version of Linux</a> too.</p> <p>Whether you use GNU/Linux or not, please don't confuse the public by using the name “Linux” ambiguously. Linux is the kernel, one of the essential major components of the system. The system as a whole is basically the GNU system, with Linux added. When you're talking about this combination, please call it “GNU/Linux.”</p> <p> If you want to make a link on “GNU/Linux” for further reference, this page and <a href="/gnu/thegnuproject.html"> https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html</a> are good choices. If you mention Linux, the kernel, and want to add a link for further reference, <a href="https://foldoc.org/linux">https://foldoc.org/linux</a> is a good URL to use.</p> <div class="column-limit"></div> <h3 class="footnote">Postscripts</h3> <p> Aside from GNU, one other project has independently produced a free Unix-like operating system. This system is known as BSD, and it was developed at UC Berkeley. It was nonfree in the 80s, but became free in the early 90s. A free operating system that exists today <a class="ftn" href="#newersystems">[4]</a> is almost certainly either a variant of the GNU system, or a kind of BSD system.</p> <p> People sometimes ask whether BSD too is a version of GNU, like GNU/Linux. The BSD developers were inspired to make their code free software by the example of the GNU Project, and explicit appeals from GNU activists helped persuade them, but the code had little overlap with GNU. BSD systems today use some GNU programs, just as the GNU system and its variants use some BSD programs; however, taken as wholes, they are two different systems that evolved separately. The BSD developers did not write a kernel and add it to the GNU system, and a name like GNU/BSD would not fit the situation <a class="ftn" href="#gnubsd">[5]</a>.</p> <div class="column-limit"></div> <h3 class="footnote">Footnotes</h3> <ol> <li id="unexciting">These unexciting but essential components include the GNU assembler (GAS) and the linker (GLD), both are now part of the <a href="/software/binutils/">GNU Binutils</a> package, <a href="/software/tar/">GNU tar</a>, and many more.</li> <li id="nottools">For instance, The Bourne Again SHell (BASH), the PostScript interpreter <a href="/software/ghostscript/ghostscript.html">Ghostscript</a>, and the <a href="/software/libc/libc.html">GNU C library</a> are not programming tools. Neither are GNUCash, GNOME, and GNU Chess.</li> <li id="somecomponents">For instance, the <a href="/software/libc/libc.html">GNU C library</a>.</li> <li id="newersystems">Since that was written, a nearly-all-free Windows-like system has been developed, but technically it is not at all like GNU or Unix, so it doesn't really affect this issue. Most of the kernel of Solaris has been made free, but if you wanted to make a free system out of that, aside from replacing the missing parts of the kernel, you would also need to put it into GNU or BSD.</li> <li id="gnubsd">On the other hand, in the years since this article was written, the GNU C Library has been ported to several versions of the BSD kernel, which made it straightforward to combine the GNU system with that kernel. Just as with GNU/Linux, these are indeed variants of GNU, and are therefore called, for instance, GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/kNetBSD depending on the kernel of the system. 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