On Jul 25, 2008, Bjoern Schiessle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Who did that port?? Linus and his team? >> >> Most certainly. I can't quite picture the GNU project putting >> resources into the early development of GNU+Linux to make the >> combination usable. Linux was not perceived as a relevant kernel for >> the GNU operating system back then.
> It seems like the FSF has at least funded the necessary rewriting: Yep, but that was not exactly "early". That's what became libc.so.6, which would put that around 1994-5, if memory serves. By then, Linux was already perceived as relevant and important, and I believe the Hurd had already been shifted to lower priority. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
