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    Well, it _is_ the "system" in "system call": a "system call" clearly
    passes control to Linux.

Actually it calls libc, and then libc invokes the kernel.

    > It isn't GNU/Linux, but like GNU/Linux, it includes
    > Linux along with many other programs.

    Linux is not really a program in the usual sense.

It is a program, in the usual sense of the word.
You must have some unusual sense of the word in mind.