Jeroen Dekkers writes:
Most, if not all, call it the OS "Linux", not giving credits to GNU. Also I've heard at least one of the main Linux hackers saying that naming it GNU/Linux is just stupid because GNU is just a little piece and you could better name it Xfree86/Perl/QT/GNU/Linux, which totally missed the point.
I like the point. :-)
By the way: I don't call it GNU/Linux. To most of the mutants I say: Redhat, SuSe, etc. Since Debian keeps to the GPL as far as possible (or even strictly?), avoids contamination with proprietary (YAST) or undocumented (RPM) setup tools and also produces the a first distro with a Hurd kernel, I'd say, that Debian ist nearest to what could be GNU/Linux (I think they use GNU/Debian).
GNU/Linux is really a strange name, since there is no such a thing as THE STANDARD LINUX and there won't be 1 GNU system if it is successful. The time is over, when only one variant was the right one (and that is the idea of freedom).
They don't because GNU and some ppl like you don't give credit to Linux.
Can you name an example? I've never heard someone calling the "GNU/Linux" system "GNU".
Well. The name GNU sort of mutated to another meaning: (Real) Free software. This might include one ore more kernels to run the software at, but after all, a kernel is also a piece of software and who would like to take the freedom from people to put the pieces together as THEY want?
IMHO there will be never THE GNU system, only a whole continuum od GNU based systems. And that is good.
Regards -- Markus