Quoting Richard Stallman from the "The GNU Project" (type C-h C-p in
Emacs):

   "The GNU Hurd is not ready for production use.  Fortunately, another
   kernel is available.  In 1991, Linus Torvalds developed a
   Unix-compatible kernel and called it Linux.  Around 1992, combining
   Linux with the not-quite-complete GNU system resulted in a complete
   free operating system.  (Combining them was a substantial job in
   itself, of course.) It is due to Linux that we can actually run a
   version of the GNU system today.

   We call this system version GNU/Linux, to express its composition as
   a combination of the GNU system with Linux as the kernel."




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