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Both Chrome and Aluminium are Linux, so which are you trying to say is better?

Or are you saying more conventional Linux is superior? Gnu/Linux is a good term for that.

When someone says "Linux" in isolation, they mean a conventional Linux distribution. Only extreme pedants and Richard Stallman call it "GNU/Linux".

I prefer to call it systems/Linux these days. The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking.

> The amount of gnu bits in a desktop Linux distro is ever shrinking.

What GNU software is actually being removed from any distro?

Ubuntu replaced their core userland utils with uutils, so the bulk of it. I’m guessing most other distros will follow suit.

Huh. I didn't know Ubuntu had replaced GNU coreutils. I'm not sure that alone counts as "the bulk of it", but it's definitely very significant.

pipewire, systemd, Wayland, etc. none of that is produced or maintained by GNU.

ALSA, sysvinit, and Xorg weren't GNU projects, either.

They didn't say Linux in isolation, they said it on a comment on a story that mentions two Linux non-conventional distributions and has no mention of conventional Linux. Therefore the presumption is that they're referring to the Linuxes in the article.

It’s not a great term, there is a small and shrinking proportion of GNU in most distros. Things like systemd or Wayland are far more important.

Systemd is Gnu licensed.

"GNU" in "GNU/Linux" isn't about the license but about the GNU OS, https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#why

That is not how anyone uses that term. For starters, Linux is also GPL licensed, so if it was like that then we wouldn't bother calling it GNU/Linux, we could just call it GNU. More to the point though, being GPL-licensed doesn't make something part of the GNU project.

GNU/GNU

I've actually used GNU/GNU to refer to HURD:)

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