It's just GNU

The operating system's name isn't "Linux" or "GNU/Linux"; there's just the GNU operating system and Linux is one of it's kernels.

If you can't distinguish a kernel from an operating system, you don't belong to this board.

the reason Linux is more popular is because its more readable and user friendly compared to GNU

That is one angry nigger.

GNU has to be one of the stupidest acronyms on the planet. I am glad its not popular, fuck stallman

How dare you to insult St IGNUcius.

This linux os sounds really confusing I'll think I'll just get a mac hahahahahaha

jentoo ganoo leenux

that is LITERALLY all correct pronunciation according to the devs of each

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. 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.

Linux is also an operating system.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux is in fact GNU. Linux is not part of the operating system itself, but is the kernel that is not covered by the naming system of an operating system as defined by common sense.

Many users run operating systems such as Windows, OSX, and a variant of BSD yet do not use a cumbersome naming system that includes the kernel, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, GNU has been the exception to this for no reason and has just been called "Linux" for no good reason, and many others use the insane, cumbersome term "GNU/Linux", mostly because the GNU project doesn't want you to think that Linux is a part of GNU.

There really is a Linux, and it's not part of GNU, but it's a kernel, and no one really specifies using it. GNU is the OS; the actual base system you interact with, and is useful with any compatible kernel; it can function with many different kernels such as kBSD or even NTOSKRNL.EXE, so the whole system should only specify the kernel when it matters, because all these kernels are really irrelevant regarding GNU.

I use Alpine Linux. It's the Alpine software compilation, packaging and package manager, plus the Linux kernel.

That's nice, but has nothing to do with this thread.

/liGNUx/

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as GNU, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. 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.

This, basically

Stallman gave GNU a hideous unpronounceable name and then got salty when nobody wanted to fucking use it

but haha guys its a recursive acronym isn't that witty and clever

is he 11 years old? that's the kind of shit a preteen would find clever

if he gave it a serious name maybe it would be used more

Actually, Linus came up with a worse name for his kernel. He named it "Freax". It's only known as "Linux" today, because the ftp directory, where the kernel was stored in was named Linux by the sysadmin.

it has everything to do with the thread because alpine has almost no GNU code on it

But this thread is about the GNU operating system, not Busybox or Alpine, retard.

Do the Busybox guys insist on calling it Busybox/Linux?

>GNU/Freax could have been a real thing

everyone would have read that, cringed, and the entire OS would have been dead in a month

>correct pronunciation according to the devs of each

"JIF"

Just pronounce it as "gee en you", you fucking retards. Not all acronyms have to be pronounced like words instead of letters. Just say "I use gee en you" whenever someone asks for your OS and "[distro] gee en you" or just "[distro]" when they ask for the distro.

Fucking Torvalds can eat shit.

>Just pronounce it as "gee en you", you fucking retards.

Or, you know, I could reject your shitty proposition and just call it Linux

Like I have been

And will continue to do

But feel free to call it Jee En Yoo and watch as people tilt their head in bafflement at the autist

fI'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Windows, is in fact, NSA/Windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, NSA plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another expenseive component of a fully functioning Spy system made useful by the NSA core-spyware, reverse shell utilities and vital keylogging components comprising a full botnet as defined by Gen. J. Clapper.

Many computer users run a modified version of the botnet system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of spyware which is widely used today is often called “Windows”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the NSA system, developed by the NSA. There really is a Windows, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Windows is the cover: the program in the system that hides the spying resources from the other programs that you run. The cover is an essential part of a botnet, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete botnet. Windows is normally used in combination with the NSA spyware: the whole system is basically botnet with Windows added, or NSA/Windows. All the so-called “Windows” versions are really versions of NSA/Windows.

>or just "[distro]" when they ask for the distro.
>Fucking Torvalds can eat shit.
But, that's something Torvalds supports, just calling it by the distro name...

Tell it dem I'm-using-Linux-retards.

hahaha he thinks computerd are the army first of all it's colonel not kernel m8 read a book maybe??? lmfao kids these days

Sometimes I'm asking myself how some people on Sup Forums even manage to solve captchas.

Not many people know this, but there was an Australian research project at my uni studying image recondition in animals. They taught howler monkeys how to solve captcha codes, and then studied their brain activity with an MRI machine.

Needless to say, it went horribly wrong. Sup Forums has never been the same since.

I dont see why someone cant just drop the G.

Not Unix is perfectly fine as an acronym, and people can just say "new".

OS includes kernel. the only thing ive seen differently is cisco IOS as per felix lindner's experience

NU simple means not unix but what is not unix? GNU = GNU is not unix. The G is important.

Actually, a kernel is one of the defining parts of an OS. The userland is the other part. It's GNU/Linux, just as much as modern Minix isn't Minix, but Minix/NetBSD.
GNU has not finished their OS, and I wonder if they ever will.
If they don't in ten years, I'll fucking finish Hurd for them.

Well said OP

The G make's it autistic. What's not unix? Not Unix is not unix. If you're dead set on autism you can replace G with pretty much any other letter and get something less autistic sounding.

No because they're not run by an autist.

>interjection
>Interjection
>INTERJECTION
>I N T E R J E C T I O N

No it's the Linux Operating system.

What you are refering to as GNU is only a tool, a userspace that can or cannot be bundled with the operating system.

Because if we followed that naming retinue we'd be calling all linux distributions Linux/xfree86/GNU/alltheotherutilitiesbundledwiththeDistro/ *Distronamehere*

>If you can't distinguish a kernel from an operating system, you don't belong to this board.
Quick! Is a memory IO system a part of an OS or a kernel? Is a disk IO system?

>inb4 no response
>inb4 "uhh it depends maaannn"

Yeah, that's what I thought bitch

It's been known as Linux for years, I'm not going to change just because some fat autist is whining about credit.

GNU/Linux/UNIX/C/Bell Labs

Guh-noo

GNU is only the operating system according to dinosaurs who think the roughly POSIX compatible shell utilities and C library are the only things that matter, when they are in fact fucking terrible and useless

Stop using that dated shit

Stallman's rationale is advertising for GNU because his commie cause is clearly the best

It's Systemd/Linux

Good thing I use Macs and don't have to deal with this shit

Why wine about how lame recursive acronyms are. It's not like it gimps the software.
Are you gnu here?

I will always call it "GNU/Linux" and you can't do nothing to stop me.

And I will always call it Linux.

You can call it the way you like the most, my darling

You're a fucking creep

Said the user on Sup Forums

And now you made me want listen Creep by Radiohead. Look at what you've done.

>implying everybody here is a basement dwelling neckbeard

This doesn't imply you're not a creep c:

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux is in fact GNU. Linux is not part of the operating system itself, but is the kernel that is not covered by the naming system of an operating system as defined by common sense.

Many users run operating systems such as Windows, OSX, and a variant of BSD yet do not use a cumbersome naming system that includes the kernel, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, GNU has been the exception to this for no reason and has just been called "Linux" for no good reason, and many others use the insane, cumbersome term "GNU/Linux", mostly because the GNU project doesn't want you to think that Linux is a part of GNU.

There really is a Linux, and it's not part of GNU, but it's a kernel, and no one really specifies using it. GNU is the OS; the actual base system you interact with, and is useful with any compatible kernel; it can function with many different kernels such as kBSD or even NTOSKRNL.EXE, so the whole system should only specify the kernel when it matters, because all these kernels are really irrelevant regarding GNU.

gnu? is that the compiler? Or green is my pepper?

linux on the other hand is the os which runs on my servers, on my phone, on my smart tv and on my wlan AP.

read

> what is alpine linux

A placebo buggy useless piece of shit used by some insecure hipster faggots

I just pronounce it like the G is silent. So sue me.

something that doesn't have anything to do with the stuff people are talking about when they say "linux"