This is a rather silly list of scientific papers which uphold the following characteristica:

1. contains the wording "Linux Operating system"
2. does not contain the wording "GNU/Linux"
3. is in the category: Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics
4. is authored in 2007 or 2008
5. one of the authors has the name "William" (first, middle or last name)
6. is not a patent.

This corresponds to this Google scholar search [1] (patents are sorted out manually).

NB: If you make the same search with #2 changed to "must contain" .. then the result is 0 papers. This doesn't show that GNU/Linux is never used. In fact it is easy to demonstrate with similar searches that GNU/Linux will be used by a minority of papers (around 1 in 75 or so). Here the search criteria was merely so narrow that the minority didn't show.

(the reason for the William name is a slight towards a certain other William in the computer business ;)

• Wu, W.H. (2008). "MEDIC: Medical embedded device for individualized care". Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 42 (2): 137–152. doi:10.1016/j.artmed.2007.11.006. PMID 18207716. Retrieved 2008-04-11. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Lootah, Wesam; Enck, William; McDaniel, Patrick (2007). "TARP: Ticket-based address resolution protocol". Computer Networks. 51 (15): 4322–4337. doi:10.1016/j.comnet.2007.05.007.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
• Roman, B. (2007). "Controlling a Robotic Marine Environmental Sampler with the Ruby Scripting Language". Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation. 12 (1): 56–61. doi:10.1016/j.jala.2006.07.013. Retrieved 2008-04-11. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• O’neill, L. (2007). "Electronic Medical Records for a Rural Family Practice: A Case Study In Systems Development" (PDF). Journal of Medical Systems. 31 (1): 25–33. doi:10.1007/s10916-006-9040-1. PMID 17283920. Retrieved 2008-04-11. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Armitage, W.D. (2007). "A UML and MLN based approach to implementing a networking laboratory on a scalable Linux cluster". Retrieved 2008-04-11. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Armitage, William D.; Gaspar, Alessio; Rideout, Matthew (2007). "Remotely accessible sandboxed environment with application to a laboratory course in networking". Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGITE conference on Information technology education. pp. 83–90. doi:10.1145/1324302.1324321. ISBN 9781595939203.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
• Atkins, W.D. (2007). Design and Implementation of a Hardened Distributed Network Endpoint Security System for Improving the Security of Internet Protocol-based Networks.
• Kent, W. (2007). "An Integrated UMTS-WLAN Testbed". Testbeds and Research Infrastructure for the Development of Networks and Communities, 2007. TridentCom 2007. 3rd International Conference on. pp. 1–10. {{cite conference}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Haberkorn, M.E. (2007). "Method and apparatus for providing proxied JMX interfaces to highly available J2EE components". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Arellanes, P.T. (2007). "Relevancy association architecture". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Mutz, D. (2007). "Exploiting Execution Context for the Detection of Anomalous System Calls". Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4637: 1–20. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-74320-0_1. ISBN 978-3-540-74319-4. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Boerstler, D.W. (2007). "Random number generator". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Yu, J. (2007). "Feature Selection and Molecular Classification of Cancer Using Genetic Programming". Neoplasia. 9 (4): 292–303. doi:10.1593/neo.07121. PMC 1854845. PMID 17460773. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Beck, A. (2007). "the TV-Link Service Package Using the Alcatel-Lucent Service Broker™". Bell Labs Technical Journal. 12 (1): 23–39. doi:10.1002/bltj.20215. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Koza, J.R. (2007). "Automatic Computational Discovery of Chemical Reaction Networks Using Genetic Programming". Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4660: 205–227. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73920-3_10. ISBN 978-3-540-73919-7. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)