Z:gnu-www-ja-linux-and-gnu--ba0054-Fortunately, we didn't have to/id

Fortunately, we didn't have to wait for the Hurd, because of Linux. Once Torvalds freed Linux in 1992, it fit into the last major gap in the GNU system. People could then  combine Linux with the GNU system to make a complete free system &mdash; a version of the GNU system which also contained Linux. The GNU/Linux system, in other words.