Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 5th May 2006 11:16 UTC, submitted by Puru Govind
"This famous controversy is there ever since I became aware of operating systems known as GNU/Linux. The GNU General Public License, which is used by Linux as well as most GNU software, armors both characters. GNU/Linux is the term coined by the Free Software Foundation, Richard Stallman and people who support FSF, for operating systems composed of the FSF's GNU software and the Linux kernel; such systems are generally called Linux."
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RE: Everything Unix is GNU
by openwookie on Fri 5th May 2006 17:01
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Not so true in BSD land.
For the most part, the only GNU software (as in software produced by the fsf) used by the BSDs is gcc.
Other GNU tools are available via ports, but gcc is the only one that is necessary.
gcc is definately the fsf's biggest achievement. It has no rival and is used on almost every system/platform.
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2005-11-18
Maybe that subject is a little too general, but a lotof of Unixy OSes out there use the GNU software or software compatible with GNU. So saying something that's Unixy is GNU/Unixen doesn't really say anything. When I switch between Unixen I just expect that a lot of the tools will be the same.