On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:40 AM, iosif <[email protected]> wrote: > "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 >
And it would still be an OS hobbyists toy if not for X. And the innumerable other projects that make up the open source ecosystem. Ian ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
