"Credit for Linux generally goes to its human namesake, one Linus Torvalds, a Finn who got the whole thing rolling in 1991 when he used some of the GNU tools to write the beginnings of a Unix kernel that could run on PC-compatible hardware. And indeed Torvalds deserves all the credit he has ever gotten, and a whole lot more. But he could not have made it happen by himself, any more than Richard Stallman could have. To write code at all, Torvalds had to have cheap but powerful development tools, and these he got from Stallman's GNU project."
-- In the Beginning Was the Command Line On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 09:13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:54 PM, Huan Truong <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:30 -0500, "iosif" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> should be GNU/Linux :) >> >> I remember I've read something about this on Linux Hater's Blog (btw, >> LHB is a good one) but can't recall. >> >> So take the following with some sort of humor. Not as enjoyable as LHB >> but the following's the best I can find. >> >> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16843&cid=1941648 >> >> - Is GCC critical to Linux? All of the following are able to compile the >> kernel. >> >> LLVM http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-dev/2010-October/011711.html >> TCC http://bellard.org/tcc/ >> ICC http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-compilers/ >> >> Btw, I'm trying to get 2.6.36 compiled with icc (someone claimed that it >> was possible without any patch >> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1832598&cid=33974198 ) but I >> personally wasn't able to. They said icc makes it run 20% faster. Not a >> bad deal. > > Well any distro your using will be using gcc and glibc though. > > The real reason why asking for GNU/Linux is unreasonable is because > the reasoning is that GNU is such an essential part of the operating > system that it needs credit. But it ignores the modern definition of a > operating system certainly includes the services provided by X (which > still manages device drivers for video cards, if thats not "OS" then I > don't know what is) and arguably also the API and services provided by > KDE or Gnome. So if you are going to say GNU/Linux, you should also > call the OS used by Ubuntu "GNU/Linux/X/Gnome". > > Or you could just call it Linux. :) > > Ian > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To get off this list, send email to [email protected] > with Subject: unsubscribe > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
