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“Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)…”

— Linus Torvalds

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LinuxUserGD
LinuxUserGD
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering 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.
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m0jek
m0jek
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I remember seeing that post on usenet back in the day. I immediately acquired the floppies and my life changed.

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