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[[!meta title="You say GNU, don't you mean GNU/Hurd?"]]

Yes and no. GNU refers to the system as a whole, while GNU/Hurd is more
specific, saying that it is the GNU system running on the Hurd -- to
differentiate it from the GNU system running on Linux, GNU/Linux.