GNU/Linux is the term used by the Free Software Foundation and its supporters (especially it's founder and main activist Richard Stallman) to refer to what is more commonly called the Linux operating system. The software originally written by Linus Torvalds is not actually a complete operating system, but rather a Unix-like kernel?. Linus and other early Linux developers adapted most of the available GNU software to work with Linux, and thus a completely functional operating system was formed. Since the GNU project was begun to develop such an operating system, and all of the elements of the GNU system except for the kernel were built by the Free Software Foundation, Stallman argues that the system is more properly called GNU/Linux. The FSF also point to the development of the Hurd kernel; an effort to complete the GNU system with its own kernel (although under the GPL licence, Linux is technically not part of the GNU project).
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