Guy Johnston wrote: > Hi, I've been reading on the GNU website that GNU/Linux "is basically > GNU, with Linux functioning as its kernel". Does anyone know which parts > of a standard GNU/Linux system aren't also part of the official GNU > system, apart from the Linux kernel (not including applications which > aren't part of the actual operating system)?
This isn't as well-defined as you think. Linux is specifically not part of the GNU system (since Hurd [http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html] is supposed to be), but it usually isn't so cut and dried. > I know that GNU contains some free software which wasn't specifically > written for it, such as the X window system, as there's no need to > replace them, because its aim is to make a complete free software > operating system available, not to write all the parts of one from > scratch when that isn't necessary. You can of course see a list of official (most with copyright owned by FSF) GNU software at http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/ , but whether other software should be considered part of GNU isn't so sure. Matthew Flaschen
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