On Monday 07 June 2010 11:15:41 Prem Kurian Philip wrote: > > just curious - did linus use gcc when he first wrote his kernel? > > -- > > I think he did. My memory of this is a little vague but the first time I > used Linux sometime in 1992/1993 or so, it required gcc. But Linus did > start developing Linux on Minix (I think he used Gcc 1.37 initially and > then 1.4) and only later on removed Minix apps and replaced then with GPL > apps. Actually one of the first things he ported over when Linux became > self-hosting was gcc and bash. >
that is confirmed by the link given by steve. -- regards kg http://livejournal.com/lawgon _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
