support if you look at by far the most distributions including the popular ubuntu are derived from debian and from the debian website itself a large part of the basic tools that fill out the operating system come from the gnu project hence the name gnu linux if proponents such as sudoghost for keeping the article title as linux based solely on what it is commonly known as then maybe they should be arguing for a change to ubuntu instead because a lot of sources simply refer to the ubuntu os as simply ubuntu without any reference to linux at all gnu plays a vital part alongside the kernel in most distributions and that the debian project acknowledges gnu linux has more credibility than whatever supposed common name these proponents claim is in use even if a reliable source can be found that claims common usage of linux over gnu linux the sources claiming otherwise are far more credible the debian project editors like sudoghost should get off their soapbox and stop reverting edits without justification or consensus