Z:gnu-www-ja-gnu-linux-faq--e1ae7a-People who think that Linux is/en

People who think that Linux is an entire operating system, if they hear about GNU at all, often get a wrong idea of what GNU is. They may think that GNU is the name of a collection of programs&mdash;often they say &ldquo;programming tools&rdquo;, since some of our programming tools became popular on their own. The idea that &ldquo;GNU&rdquo; is the name of an operating system is hard to fit into a conceptual framework in which that operating system is labeled &ldquo;Linux&rdquo;.