wrong meaning of "GNU/Linux" on Debian Project mainpage
Quoting from http://www.debian.org/
"Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system
is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.
Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of
the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux."
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This is wrong. Checkout the following interview with Richard M. Stallman
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
FB: Today Linux is just a kernel, so you still have direct control over other
parts of the OS. That's why the name GNU/Linux for the complete OS.
RMS: That isn't what the name GNU/Linux means; it has nothing to do with that.
The name GNU/Linux means that the system started out as GNU, with Linux
added.
Nowadays, the system includes thousands of packages developed by thousands of
developers, but at the base it is still GNU with Linux added.
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So I think a possible correct version could be:
"Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system
is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.
Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of
the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; the name GNU/Linux means that
the system started out as GNU, with Linux added."
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