Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?

[Richard Stallman]

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GNU/Linux distros are variants of the GNU operating system.

There are two issues with the idea of designating Guix as "the GNU system."

1. The GNU system, properly speaking, should contain the GNU Hurd.  In
practical terms, I am not sure we want to make a distro with the GNU
Hurd -- it may not be usable enough for that to be worth while.  But
at the same time I hesitate to officially discard the GNU Hurd by
saying that Linux is the kernel of the GNU system.

2. I don't want to downplay the existing free GNU/Linux distros than
we now give them.  They are important.

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