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The Wikipedia "Naming Controversy" by Joshua Gay
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| On the English version of Wikipedia there is an article that discusses the
| naming controversy over whether one should call the operating
| system “GNU/Linux” or “Linux.” In that article, some contend that Linux is
| the more popular and common name for the system. But when writing an
| encyclopedia, neither popularity nor commonality are the paramount concerns.
| Calling the system “GNU/Linux” is more factually accurate, as the GNU project
| largely forms the base of all distributions of the operating system. For
| example, GNU packages accounts for 14.79% of the 16.5GB of source packages
| used to build the Main repository of the gNewSense GNU/Linux distribution
| (deltad). They also constitute 6.69% of the 27GBs of source packages from
| which the Universe repository is built. Linux weighs in at about 253MB and
| accounts for approximately 1.5% of the source code needed to build the Main
| repository. Furthermore, Linux itself is generally built using GNU libraries
| and GNU tools, and on many systems depends on them being there.
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