What you’re referring to as Linux is actually SystemD/GRUB/GNU/Linux/Wayland+Pipewire+XDG/Desktop Environment
Far more valid than Stallman’s coat-tailing.
Imagine thinking that the guy who invented the concept of Free Software and built an entire compiler toolchain and userspace is “coat-tailing” on the guy who only made a kernel.
I agree, GNU/Linux is awkward and dumb.
So I just call it “GNU.”
Someone send this to Stallman, so he can later download, print and view it at his pleasure.
It’s not, because the x in Linus’ Unix is not referring to the windowing system:
Linux Journal: Is it true that you suggested the name “UNIX” for the long ago OS, Multics? What does that word mean?
Brian Kernighan: Yes, long ago. Multics was an acronym for something like Multiplexed Information and Computing Service, and it was big and complicated because it had many of everything. I suggested Unics for Ken’s new system, because it was small and had at most one of anything. (Multi and uni are both Latin roots, so it was a very weak pun.) Someone else spelled it with the letter X; no one can remember who.
