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I don't think GNU can be used as a stand-alone tag. Apart from the OS, GNU is also a tool collection of various programs, many used for programming, making is a very ambiguous tag which can't stan...
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Lundin
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2022-08-15T14:08:12Z (over 1 year ago)
I don't think GNU can be used as a stand-alone tag. Apart from the OS, GNU is also a tool collection of various programs, many used for programming, making is a very ambiguous tag which can't stand on its own. Any use of the tag needs to also specify what it's actually about: the OS or one of the tools. And in that case we might as well drop the GNU tag since it doesn't add much meaningful info - tagging something as for example "GNU" and "gcc" would be redundant and the GNU tag fills no purpose there. On Someplace Else I believe they use the tags "linux" meaning "GNU/Linux", and "linux-kernel", meaning the the kernel part. And any non-Linux distro would have its own tag from there.