[H-GEN] Richard Stallman's presentation in Brisbane.

[Nick Kwiatkowski]

Russell Stuart wrote on 31/08/2010 06:30:43 AM:

> 
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 02:51 +1000, David Seikel wrote:
> > Probably just as many systems out there with Linux kernels that don't
> > use GNU software.
> 
> Can you name one?  As far as I am aware, the kernel can only be compiled
> with gcc.
> 
> In fact all BSD variants use gcc as well, and that includes Apples OSX
> and iOS.
> 

This statement sum it up for me: "Linux is not in love with gcc, nor the 
reverse. They just happen to work well together."

But the main point I agree with from David, saying that all those distros 
out there are GNU OS with Linux just added is a bit of a stretch. 

Regards



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