Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?

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From: Christopher Browne
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:25

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Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when Sami Sihvonen <ss@janiika.com> would write:
> 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?

Not in many years.  It was at one point probably possible to use the
Amsterdam Compiler Toolkit to compile Linux, but that was _way_ back.
 
>> and modified GLIBC to get what became Linux's libc. (Which 
>> corresponds to "Hey, let's port glibc to Linux for our system!")
>> MUCH later on, there has been a convergence back towards the GNU 
>> GLIBC, but that took place WAY later.
>
> Btw, Free Software Foundation funded converting of GLIBC to be
> compatible with GNU/Linux Operating System out-of-the-box...

As I said, what _originally_ happened was that the Linux folk modified
GLIBC (version 1) to get what became Linux's libc.  That most notably
characterizes versions up to libc4 and libc5.

libc6 is GLIBC2, which the FSF did some funding of (although someone
that looks at who worked on it would find Cygnus as the most visible
organization paying bills), but that took place _years_ later, when
the FSF wanted to start revising history to suggest that the FSF was
totally responsible for the creation of Linux.  The fact that you're
pointing to GLIBC2 indicates that the revision was pretty successful.
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From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Difference between Unix and Linux?
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