On 2001 November? 26 ,Monday 01:24, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Not true... Almost all Gnu software, except perhaps GNOME, was very much > alive before Linux. Emacs, Gcc, Gdb, Bash, Groff, GNU make, bison, > fileutils, just as a few examples, and non-gnu stuff like Ghostscript, Tex, > X-Windows, TCL/TK and much much more - all predated Linux, and were > actively developed. When Linux came along, all Linus had to write was a > Kernel (and port a few applications) - everything else was already ready. > > If I remember correctly, even Gtk (or more accurately, Gimp) started before > Linux got popular. I remember using some initial version of Gimp on an SGI > Unix (Irix) machine around 1995 (I think - don't shoot me if I'm wrong) - > after Linux existed but before it was popular, and it certainly wasn't the > reason why GIMP (or anything) was written. one of the most popular was (and is IMHO), is DJGPP, a port of gcc to dos, quake 1 was written with it. (when was it released?)
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