In a nutshell, what happened was, the FSF started developing GNU by writing things like compliers, C
libraries, and basic command line utilities before the kernel. Linus Torvalds, started Linux by writing the
Linux kernel first and using applications written for GNU.
Many people feel that Linux should really be called GNU/Linux. This is because Linux is only the kernel, not
the applications that run on it. Most of the basic command line utilities were written by the Free Software
Foundation while developing their GNU operating system. Among those utilities are some of the most basic
commands like cp, mv lsof, and dd.
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