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By the time Linux was born, the GNU project had produced a large collection of tools, enough to have its founder claim that the last major missing piece for it
by tshepang 13y ago
By the time Linux was born, the GNU project had produced a large collection of tools, enough to have its founder claim that the last major missing piece for it to be a complete OS was a kernel.
- gngeal 13y agoWell, yes, but the individual GNU tools are to a large degree independent. I'm not an insider, but to me it seemed that the kernel development effort really pushed the limits in the area of distributed development of a single large code base. (I'm not sure, though, how exactly did the kernel code base measure with the contemporary GCC code base, which is probably the closest in complexity from all the GNU stuff.)
- tshepang 13y agoYes, GCC is most likely the single largest of all GNU tools (~6 million SLOC).