The GNU program supporters and developers, especially its founders Richard Stallman, which puts a class UNIX operating system called Linux, called GNU / Linux.
Linux is not a complete operating system, just a class UNIX kernel, developed by Linus Torvalds and others, and the first version is issued in 1991. The GNU program begins in 1984, the goal is to complete a complete operating system based on free software. In 1991, when Linux issued, the GNU program has completed most of the software other than the operating system kernel, including a shell, C language library, and a C language compiler. Linus Torvalds and other early Linux developers add these tools in Linux to complete the Linux operating system.
In the mid-1990s, Linux started popular, so the GNU program founder Richard Stallman requested the Linux operating system to be renamed "GNU / Linux", which is Linux used many GNU programs. Free operating system independently creates Debian, the operating system developed is called Debian GNU / Linux.
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