Z:gnu-www-ja-linux-and-gnu--ca0835-If we tried to measure the GNU/en

If we tried to measure the GNU Project's contribution in this way, what would we conclude? One CD-ROM vendor found that in their &ldquo;Linux distribution&rdquo;, GNU software was the largest single contingent, around 28% of the total source code, and this included some of the essential major components without which there could be no system. Linux itself was about 3%. (The proportions in 2008 are similar: in the &ldquo;main&rdquo; repository of gNewSense, Linux is 1.5% and GNU packages are 15%.) So if you were going to pick a name for the system based on who wrote the programs in the system, the most appropriate single choice would be &ldquo;GNU&rdquo;.