🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.unix.admin
Article #4237

Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

#4237
From: Stefaan A Eeckels
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 07:45
23 lines
2565 bytes
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 14:07:52 +0300
Sami Sihvonen <ss@janiika.com> wrote:

> In article <agcc9q$kpbut$2@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>,
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
> 
> > It turned out to be a goal to get it to self-host, so they used GCC as
> > a compiler,
> 
> You mean GNU GCC? Thank you for that information that I didn't think
> about: Linux-kernel is compiled with GNU Project efforts. Is there a
> non-GNU product that can compile Linux-kernel?

AFAIK, no. Without gcc, no runnable Linux kernel.

-- 
Stefaan 
-- 
Even in business, the greatest reputations are sometimes the result of
the glamour of city superstition. I could point to railway chairmen 
reputed indispensable, whom the shareholders and the travelling public
might with great profit and comfort to themselves send to St. Helena
with a pension of �0,000 a year.               --  George Bernard Shaw
Technical Details
Message-ID: <20020711094517.46c0039e.hoendech@ecc.lu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!npeer.kpnqwest.net!EU.net!news.vo.lu!justus.ecc.lu!nobody
References: <aelarj$5qt$1@tilde.itg.ti.com> <aermut$1vt9$1@agate.berkeley.edu> <n36dhucf8bochbnh1lfhtp78lkrrerjpug@4ax.com> <afddm8$94k$1@tilde.itg.ti.com> <l5unhu0a4ugvlfbri4r4qpl1v0g8op2s1o@4ax.com> <afishq$h9$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> <afpdun$a81$1@tilde.itg.ti.com> <afs1pq$iki$4@news.doit.wisc.edu> <mqddiuku8nkb2lpm4o70r9jbi50rjugc1v@4ax.com> <mOhW8.64858$wj4.5631530@e3500-atl2.usenetserver.com> <87sn2ub6d3.fsf@tesla.gowlin.org> <agcc9q$kpbut$2@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de> <kluniusceamlbdf5b18q03tka3jaoego25@4ax.com>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
X-Google-Thread: f8c9b,c2f5a7a6eb2eb0a9
X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c9b,public
X-Google-Thread: 1020c6,c2f5a7a6eb2eb0a9
X-Google-Attributes: gid1020c6,public
X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,7144e36039d56e89
X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-07-11 03:00:14 PST
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:45:17 +0200
From: Stefaan A Eeckels <hoendech@ecc.lu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
Message-ID: <20020711094517.46c0039e.hoendech@ecc.lu>
References: <aelarj$5qt$1@tilde.itg.ti.com>
 <aermut$1vt9$1@agate.berkeley.edu>
 <n36dhucf8bochbnh1lfhtp78lkrrerjpug@4ax.com>
 <afddm8$94k$1@tilde.itg.ti.com>
 <l5unhu0a4ugvlfbri4r4qpl1v0g8op2s1o@4ax.com>
 <afishq$h9$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>
 <afpdun$a81$1@tilde.itg.ti.com>
 <afs1pq$iki$4@news.doit.wisc.edu>
 <mqddiuku8nkb2lpm4o70r9jbi50rjugc1v@4ax.com>
 <mOhW8.64858$wj4.5631530@e3500-atl2.usenetserver.com>
 <87sn2ub6d3.fsf@tesla.gowlin.org>
 <agcc9q$kpbut$2@ID-125932.news.dfncis.de>
 <kluniusceamlbdf5b18q03tka3jaoego25@4ax.com>
Organization: E.C.C. sa - Computer Consultants
X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.7.6 (GTK+ 1.2.7; sparc-sun-solaris2.8)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
NNTP-Posting-Host: pppoe63-luxdsl-091.pt.lu
X-Trace: news.vo.lu 1026381606 pppoe63-luxdsl-091.pt.lu (11 Jul 2002 12:00:06 +0200)
Lines: 23
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!npeer.kpnqwest.net!EU.net!news.vo.lu!justus.ecc.lu!nobody