[rescue] OT: Linux and USB on Intel
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Sun Apr 20 16:00:43 CDT 2003
On Sunday, April 20, 2003, at 04:45 PM, Linc Fessenden wrote:
>> Not quite. The BSDs use GCC, and maybe a few other things here &
>> there, while pretty much every binary in a Linux machine's filesystem
>> is GNU.
>
> In for a penny, in for a pound.. Once you are using the Gnu C compiler
> -
> you are doing the Gnu dance with the rest of us :-)
Yeah but the name "Linux" refers, technically, to only the kernel.
The rest of the OS...even the friggin' C libraries...are GNU. The BSDs
are a whole operating system, that happen to use the GNU C compiler.
That's far from penny/pound logic, sweetcakes. ;)
-Dave
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