LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video]

Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by rootietootie on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:16PM (#20526617)

Not true. GNU coreutils comes standard on most distros.

>There are distros where the only gnu code is the kernel.

What? GNU never finished Hurd kernel and that is why it is now GNU/Linux because Linux was the missing piece since they could not get Hurd working. In other words, there is no GNU kernel. Please don't just make things up.

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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by panpanna on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:22PM (#20526688)

Nobody is talking about Hurd.

Alpine Linux for example replaces libc with musl and gnu binaries with BusyBox.

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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by aidenn0 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @12:30PM (#20526759)

That does raise the question, can I safely not call a busybox based distribution GNU/Linux in front of RMS, particularly if it uses uClibc?

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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by lixtra on Thursday July 25, 2019 @01:25PM (#20527414)

Don’t you need gcc to compile the Linux kernel? At least it was like this for a very long time.

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Re:LinuxWorld 1999, Torvalds and Stallman [video] by aidenn0 on Thursday July 25, 2019 @02:29PM (#20528025)

Nobody in GNU is suggesting that all software compiled with gcc must be called GNU.

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