Now that Linux-libre has been dubbed an official GNU package it
    seems to me that the GNU Operating System now has a fully
    functional kernel. Perhaps this means that there could now be an
    official release of the GNU Operating System?

Indeed, there could be.  But we still face the question of what it
would consist of, and how to develop and maintain it.  Either we would
endorse some existing free distro that uses Linux-libre, or make
another.  Both options have problems, previously discussed.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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