Is a Linux operating system actually GNU/Linux?
I was watching revolution OS and Richard Stallman insisted that Linux should be called GNU/Linux because it’s the combination of Linux and GNU. How true is it?
98% (a made up but pretty close to reality) of all Linux distros use GNU software. In particular, they use GCC, the GNU C library, and many GNU utilities, like bash. Only in embedded systems are you likely to find systems that don’t use GNU utilities or the C library, and as it is necessary to practically compile the Linux kernel, all of them owe their binary status to GCC.
its true,
the linux kernel was the missing piece to make gnu software into an operating system,
the linux kernel itself is not gnu,
the actual gnu software operating system has its own kernel called hurd,
the hurd kernel is more unix like than the linux kernel,
the hurd kernel is not ready for production uses, so the linux kernel was used instead
so GNU/linux is a getting together of gnu software and linux