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Looks like Linus did more or better work. I 've never used/seen a gnu hurd system in my life. Edit: Well, then you should not stop at Stallman. Hundreds of sci

Looks like Linus did more or better work. I 've never used/seen a gnu hurd system in my life. Edit: Well, then you should not stop at Stallman. Hundreds of scientists, going back to Godel and beyond gave roots to modern open algorithms/software by giving away their academic research for free. I think Linux did not start just to be a free kernel, but because linus wanted to actually make a better system than minix (and learn to use 386, and finish his Master!).

kleiba 15y ago
Oh, I didn't mean GNU+Hurd in particular, rather the fact that any operating system is more than "just" the kernel. And that is not meant to discredit Linus' outstanding achievement.
kds 15y ago
But you've seen the GCC - the thing that compiles the Linux kernel, right? The default C - and some more languages - compiler on almost any Linux or BSD system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Compiler_Collection