User:Softwareperson1000
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I have become Unix; all-computing all the way; always free and always computing
For my work here on Wikipedia, see GNU variants, I have contributed a substantially there. I have also created the articles for the Equinox Desktop Environment, PekWM, JWM (Joe's Window Manager), NomadBSD, and Init Freedom. I have also made some alterations to the articles GNU and GNU Project.
The case for: GNU, a Family of Operating Systems
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Unix systems in the spirit of Free Software are the best operating systems.
GNU variants are an intersection point in the Free Unix world between various free Unix-like operating systems, where they meet with the free GNU operating system in the form of different combinations of components from the various systems other Unix-like systems with mostly the GNU userland. GNU variants as an article is thus a wonderful place to explore all things Free Unix and their infinite possibilities and reading about them is highly recommended.
What is the GNU family of operating systems
Operating systems primarily based around the use of software developed by the GNU Project, which have their historical roots in the founding of the GNU Project by Richard M. Stallman, distribute a modified version of the GNU operating system typically in conjunction with a third party kernel, under a unique distribution name for any one particular such distribution, with examples including the likes of Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Guix System, Mageia, NixOS, OpenMandriva, OpenSUSE, Slackware etc. Such complete operating system distributions are thus a part of the GNU family of operating systems.
Sourcing for GNU as a family and beyond, explained
Same person puts it well[1](also mentioned in)[2], big book[3], Mageia distro identifies as that[4][5](also see release notes)[6][7][8][9][10], history of GNU with Linux[11][12][13][14][15][16], random instances showing established use elsewhere (as in unrelated to being on the history of computing or distro reviews etc.)[17][18][19], some university professor acknowledges GNU/Linux as family[20]
Misc histories of combining GNU and Linux[21][22](note this one also equates "GNU/Linux" and "Linux" by calling the later an abbreviation of the first)[23], technical fact that GNU is used as an integral component in one such distribution of a GNU system[24], random usage of GNU/Linux in the wild[25]
Software and system distributions[26][27][28], GNU variants and history[29][30][31], What is Debian (and it's relation to the GNU Project)[32][33][34]
The greater Unix family
GNU too, along with others such as the BSD family and Darwin family, and also including the many non-free Unix systems are a part of the greater Unix family (or Unix-like used interchangeably with the differentiating factor being the trademark with no actual technical difference in the systems) thus the full hierarchy as a tree starts with Unix at the top, below of which are it's children or descendants, which themselves contain the various individual system distributions, which may still too form their own smallest layer of family within the space of forks from that parent system distribution, such as Debian, or Arch, or Fedora/Red Hat, which have lots of descendants to themselves also.
Historical contested parts of GNU variants article I had added
Software developed by the GNU Project (the Hurd kernel, the GNU C library, system libraries and application software like GNU coreutils, bash, the Guix package manager, etc.) is frequently distributed in whole or in part both, for use on and as parts of various operating systems,[35][36] as well as to form complete operating system distributions out of,[37][36] usually in combination with other third party software such as making use of a third party kernel, as GNU variants. The most popular variants of GNU are system distributions that use the Linux kernel.[38][39][40][41][42][43]
GNU variants that are distributed as complete operating systems,[44][45] are distributions[46][47] of the GNU operating system.[48][49][50][51][52]
Following a design that is Unix-like, the GNU system can be used together in combination with a multitude of different kernels.[53][54][55] Unix-like operating systems in their design feature a separation between the kernel of the operating system which is the lowest level that provides the most basic features and functionality, and the higher levels of the operating system that do the rest,[56][57][58] enabling various third party developers to swap out the kernel from one to another resulting in different GNU-based systems featuring kernels from many different systems.[53][55][54]
