@Lawrence D'Oliveiro:
You're assertion that GNU/Linux is a distro is false. Although everything in the kernel is definitely part of the OS, key functionalities of Operating systems run in user-land as well.
Furthermore its the GNU programs that make GNU/Linux POSIX-compliant(and thus a UNIX-like Operating sytem)

If GNU/Linux is really just a distro of linux, then so is Android. And Google has categorically said that "Android is not Linux" (meaning GNU/Linux). What makes Android a different OS from GNU/Linux is the userspace components, on top of the modified linux kernel.

See https://lwn.net/Articles/320437/

Note: I, myself don't really care for such things. Its just easier to say 'linux', if the other person knows what you mean.

For making the best OS in my mind free. Maybe the biggest contribution in the computer world because it works so well, has many great great apps and is free.
More then any OS I have used with rare exceptions it just works.
In a day were greed is so prevalent in so nice that so many people have given a little of them self's to make the best free. From my heart a big thanks.

That was rather funny at the time because it was somewhat apt.

*badum*...*tish!*

Just because something is built with GCC or other GNU tools, doesn’t mean the FSF gets to control its name. “Linux” is a kernel. It’s called “Linux”, and that’s all there is to it.

What Stallman insists on referring to as “GNU/Linux” is a distro that includes both GNU userspace tools as well as the Linux kernel. His rationale is that GNU makes up such an important chunk of such a distro. Though recent analyses of source code sizes suggest that Linux may actually be bigger than that. As well as raising the question of why not call it “Linux/GNU/Xorg/LibreOffice/Python/CUPS/etc”, since surely all those other component contributions are important too.