On Sat, 2017-08-19 at 17:59 +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote: > El 19/08/17 a les 15:57, Samuel Thibault ha escrit: > > > > It's not vague :) > > > > GNU/Hurd is *the* GNU system, no other system is supposed to make > > uname -s return "GNU".
> I believed that GNU was an operating system and Hurd a kernel. > Why isn't it? Well, GNU is the GNU os. The kernel consists of gnumach and Hurd servers running on top of that kernel. Take a look at uname -a GNU hurd-sid 0.9 GNU-Mach 1.8+git20170609-486-dbg/Hurd-0.9 i686-AT386 GNU uname -s (kernel-name) This might be misleading GNU uname -r (kernel-release) 0.9 uname -v (kernel version) GNU-Mach 1.8+git20170609-486-dbg/Hurd-0.9 uname -o (operating system) GNU On GNU/Linux you have: uname -a Linux z97-4790k 4.9.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.10-1 (2017-02-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux uname -s Linux uname -r 4.9.0-2-amd64 uname -v #1 SMP Debian 4.9.10-1 (2017-02-17) uname -o GNU/Linux
