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GNU tools were often used on other OSes too including Solaris and other commercial Unixes but also Windows under Cygwin. Particularly GCC, make etc. but also c
by josephlord 13y ago
GNU tools were often used on other OSes too including Solaris and other commercial Unixes but also Windows under Cygwin. Particularly GCC, make etc. but also command line tools such as grep where the default platform versions were often not as feature rich. I didn't use those platforms so others will remember and know better but I don't think huge was an obviously wrong description.
- Sssnake 13y agoThere is a big difference between "some people optionally could install GNU stuff in addition to their existing tools" and "those OSes use GNU tools".
- josephlord 13y ago>the GNU tools are used in a huge number of operating systems Fair enough, I read "in" as a synonym for "on" but read in a less casual way the difference could be important. Even in the "in" case I think many BSD's used GCC as the default compiler (CLANG seems to be taking over now).