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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by zombot on Friday January 30, 2026 @08:37AM (#46824228)
How is GNU/Linux different from Linux?
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by pygy_ on Friday January 30, 2026 @09:03AM (#46824500)
It is the same thing, just emphasizing that the OS is more than the kernel, and than the userland comes from the GNU project.

The latter had been designed to be a full OS but didn't have a functional kernel when Linux was released, and Torvalds adopted the GNU userland for his project.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd

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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by Rebelgecko on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:38AM (#46826519)
Stallman preferred nomenclature
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by coryrc on Friday January 30, 2026 @09:02AM (#46824484)
Android/Linux also exists.
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by craftkiller on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:21AM (#46826267)
And Chimera Linux which is GNU-less. I guess you could call it FreeBSD/Linux but I think that'll just confuse people.
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by kachapopopow on Friday January 30, 2026 @08:40AM (#46824247)
linux is the kernel gnu is the full operating system
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by bigstrat2003 on Friday January 30, 2026 @10:38AM (#46825668)
Linux is both the name for the kernel and the full operating system.
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by jdkfkgkkdbkd on Friday January 30, 2026 @06:14PM (#46831284)
Nobody cares! ”Linux” is used as a name of the OS.
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Re:GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it wor... by kachapopopow on Saturday January 31, 2026 @09:32AM (#46837022)
yah it's silly, linux typically refers to "everything" using the linux kernel. Aka Linux.
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