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Re:Torvalds: SteamOS will "really help" Linux on desktop by teho on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @07:04PM (#6602378)
glibc is under GPLv2 and I find it to be the defining piece of GNU/Linux system. The coreutils are under GPLv3 and therefore projects like Tizen use pre-GPLv3 version of such software. So parts of GNU ecosystem are popular on embedded and the others are not.
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