Z:gnu-www-ja-gnu-linux-faq--32b747-We expected to release the GNU/en

We expected to release the GNU system packaged for installation, but this plan was overtaken by events: in 1992 others were already packaging GNU variants containing Linux. Starting in 1993 we sponsored an effort to make a better and freer GNU/Linux distribution, called Debian GNU/Linux. The founder of Debian had already chosen that name. We did not ask him to call it just &ldquo;GNU&rdquo; because that was to be the name of a system version with the GNU Hurd kernel&mdash;which wasn't ready yet.