GNU variants

GNU variants（GNU 變種）是一個自由軟件基金會提出的概念，指使用來自GNU的應用軟件及函式庫（即「用戶態」）的作業系統。它的內核不一定是GNU Hurd。.^[1]^[2]

Linux 變種

GNU/Linux一詞是GNU計劃支持者對由GNU用戶態和GNU系統軟件搭配Linux內核構成的操作系統的稱呼。其中一個著名的例子是Debian GNU/Linux。

FreeBSD 變種

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 是一個基於Debian 軟件套件管理系統和FreeBSD核心的GNU發行版。 kFreeBSD 中的k是 kernel of的縮寫 ^[3]，說明事實上只用到完整的FreeBSD的核心。目前沒有官方的版本發佈，但在2010年8月凍結的Debian Squeeze (6.0)^[4] 預期於2010年發佈，旨在支援Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. 一種 Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 的live CD是 Ging.^[5]

NetBSD 變種

Debian的NetBSD核心版本。

OpenSolaris 變種

外部連結

^ Stallman, Richard. Linux and the GNU Project. About the GNU Project. Free Software Foundation. 2007-06-19 [2007-07-22]. （原始內容存檔於2011-06-29）. 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]. （原始內容存檔於2007-04-06）. 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]. （原始內容存檔於2013-09-27）.
^ Bits from the (chilly) release team. [2010-09-25]. （原始內容存檔於2020-11-27）.
^ The Ging FAQ. [2010年1月7日]. （原始內容存檔於2008年4月22日）.

[1] Stallman, Richard. Linux and the GNU Project. About the GNU Project. Free Software Foundation. 2007-06-19 [2007-07-22]. （原始內容存檔於2011-06-29）. 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.

[2] The Debian Project. What is Debian?. About Debian. 2007-07-11 [2007-07-22]. （原始內容存檔於2007-04-06）. 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.

[3] Debian GNU/kFreeBSD FAQ. [2010-09-25]. （原始內容存檔於2013-09-27）.

[4] Bits from the (chilly) release team. [2010-09-25]. （原始內容存檔於2020-11-27）.

[5] The Ging FAQ. [2010年1月7日]. （原始內容存檔於2008年4月22日）.

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