OK, this is a post I’ve been planning for months, I think? Several past drafts have been injured and killed before I gave birth to this one, the succesful one. So, let’s jump straight into it: I wanna talk about GNU.
GNU. Not the FSF, not RMS… Why are all these three letter acronyms? Are all of these cover operations of some three letter agency? I hope saying that doesn’t get me into any trouble, so you better read my post before I suddenly disappear… Just kidding!
Where does this claim come from? Certainly not from GNU or RMS, who make great pains to distinguish between Linux (which is a kernel) and the userland (which is something entirely different from the kernel). Indeed, if GNU is “just a userland” then Linux is “just a kernel” and it can be, and often is, used independently of GNU - in fact, I imagine Android comprises the majority of Linux installs out in the world.