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A comment on macOS deprecating scripting language runtimes, including Python, Ruby, and Perl. Parent comment
"Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. (...)"
GNU couldn't use MINIX due to the license (unlike minix 3), and as I recall, the bsd's were also in somewhat unclear license terms.
Gnu made the libc, compiler and various userland tools - but no-one did a" simple get it working"-kind of kernel, and then Linux came along.
I suppose part of this might be because in early gnu days, most gnu hackers used university Unix machines - not personal 80x86 for development.
If you bough sun hw you got Solaris. Only if you bought a pc clone would you be wanting a "real" os...
"Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. (...)"
GNU couldn't use MINIX due to the license (unlike minix 3), and as I recall, the bsd's were also in somewhat unclear license terms.
Gnu made the libc, compiler and various userland tools - but no-one did a" simple get it working"-kind of kernel, and then Linux came along.
I suppose part of this might be because in early gnu days, most gnu hackers used university Unix machines - not personal 80x86 for development.
If you bough sun hw you got Solaris. Only if you bought a pc clone would you be wanting a "real" os...