Es claro que Linux es el kernel, que bash es una shell, y que existen muchos programas...
Si decimos Linux es el kernel, y GNU/Linux es en conjunto, el nucleo "Kernel" y las aplicaciones GNU que lo hacen usable.
Un listado de GNU programs:
apparix - [The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later] - 2005-12-01
Fast file system navigation
Krecipes - [The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later] - 2005-12-01
A KDE recipe tool.
Nagios - [GPL] - 2005-12-01
A powerful network and system monitor.
tlock - [The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later] - 2005-12-01
Terminal security program
Advanced Stock Tracking System - [The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later] - 2005-11-30
A web based stock tracker
Audacity - [The GNU General Public License, Version 2] - 2005-11-30
Audio editor
Baobab - [The GNU General Public License, Version 2] - 2005-11-30
An application to analyse directory trees
cdrtools - [The GNU General Public License, Version 2] - 2005-11-30
Tools to master CDs
cdrtools DVD Extensions - [The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later] - 2005-11-30
Adds to cdrtools functionality
diction - [The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later] - 2005-11-30
Checks text for readability and bad usage
Top > All GNU Packages
3DKit - [LGPL] - 2005-04-28
3D graphics rendering architecture
Bueno pues espero que esto aclare si es o no una distro GNU/Linux.
Tomado de
http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/.