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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by shmerl on Thursday July 25, 2019 @01:00PM (#20527159)
Arguably, most of the components end users care about (like desktop environment) have nothing to do with the GNU project.
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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by the_why_of_y on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:25PM (#20528597)
The G in GNOME originally stood for GNU, actually.

Gnome is still listed as a GNU package here: https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html

Today, however, Gnome is a rather independent project, with its own GNOME Foundation.

(There was also GNUStep but it was never popular)

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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by shmerl on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:51PM (#20528885)
Gnome may be (historically), but other DEs like KDE were never associated with it.
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