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100% of the user space programs were from gnu. Compiler was from gnu The initial filesystem was minix The kernel was Linux. So I would say Linus had 100s of
by happyweasel 2mo ago
100% of the user space programs were from gnu. Compiler was from gnu
The initial filesystem was minix
The kernel was Linux.
So I would say Linus had 100s of man years of ecosystem he could benefit from and that is the oss spirit.
But yeah he did not write a shell or an editor or Compiler etc and the kernel was of course oriented towards an unix like os.imagine you would have had to start from scratch, if you had just had a PC and a bios.
- podocarp 2mo ago> imagine you would have had to start from scratch, if you had just had a PC and a bios. Like templeOS I guess
- a34729t 2mo agoTempleOS blows my mind, honestly.
- cestith 2mo agoThis is all true. It’s also all in a thread about GNU Hurd, which also builds on all of that GNU software plus a Mach-based kernel.
- inigyou 2mo agoWere. How many are now? 1%? GNU's Not Vim, GNU's Not IntelliJ, GNU's Not Google Chrome.