GNU variants（GNU 变种）是一个自由软件基金会提出的概念，指使用来自GNU的应用软件及函数库（即“用户态”）的操作系统。它的内核不一定是GNU Hurd。.[1][2]
Linux 变种
GNU/Linux一词是GNU计划支持者对由GNU用户态和GNU系统软件搭配Linux内核构成的操作系统的称呼。其中一个著名的例子是Debian GNU/Linux。
FreeBSD 变种
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 是一个基于Debian 软件包管理系统和FreeBSD核心的GNU发行版。 kFreeBSD 中的k是 kernel of的缩写 [3]，说明事实上只用到完整的FreeBSD的核心。目前没有官方的版本发布，但在2010年8月冻结的Debian Squeeze (6.0)[4]预期于2010年发布，旨在支持Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. 一种 Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 的live CD是 Ging.[5]
NetBSD 变种
OpenSolaris 变种
外部链接
- ↑ Stallman, Richard. Linux and the GNU Project. About the GNU Project. Free Software Foundation. 2007-06-19 [2007-07-22].
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is more often known as “Linux”, and many users are not aware of the extent of its connection with the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is not the operating system. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
- ↑ The Debian Project. What is Debian?. About Debian. 2007-07-11 [2007-07-22].
Debian uses the Linux kernel (the core of an operating system), but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the name GNU/Linux.
- ↑ Debian GNU/kFreeBSD FAQ. [2010-09-25].
- ↑ Bits from the (chilly) release team. [2010-09-25].
- ↑ The Ging FAQ. [2010年1月7日].
- Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ISO[永久失效链接]
- Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
- Debian GNU/NetBSD
- #debian-kbsd[永久失效链接] on OFTC
- Ging live CD