Taken from the CompTIA IT Fundamentals Exam Guide book (2nd edition, published 2021). I’m not sure if they fixed this in newer versions, if at all.

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    72 years ago

    GNU is not a set of programs or libraries, it’s an operating system.

    GNU packages is what you are referring to. But GNU itself is the name of the OS.

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      52 years ago

      It was intended to be an OS and is if you use the Hurd kernel. In practice, Hurd isn’t really used, so it is just a bunch of programs and libraries. I guess it can go either way.

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        42 years ago

        Agree. GNU Hurd is the OS. GNU Utils is a bunch of libre utilities that replicates the function of the UNIX utilities.

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        12 years ago

        It is not “intended” to be an OS if you use GNU Hurd. That is literally the name of the operating system that launched the entire libre software movement. You don’t engage with it that way because linux comms don’t bother to educate their users at all.

        Rms was right, “linux” users don’t care about history and “linux” communties stopped giving a shit.