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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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