Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
On 3 March 2011 01:50, Michael Scherer<[email protected]> wrote:
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The gnu project provided lots of software, some quite unavoidable like a compiler, a standard library, or stuff like screen, gettext and slightly low level tools ( binutils, coreutils, etc ).Yes but on the other hand: - libc was forked, then merged back in glibc (and is now mainly maintained by RH). (And there's eglibc fork too) - gcc/binutils have concurrents: clang, llvm, ... (not yet at the same level but still...) Same story: egcs fork, then "merged" back whereas it's trut it was important what stallman and the fsf did, by now, most important pieces of the OS are no more provided by the GNU project itself: - the kernel, - several shells, - all the graphical stack, - most server softwares, ... - Even at the lowest leve: udev, hal, ... GNU project was important, but it's not the biggest part of a Linux distro. Else shouldn't we be named "GNU/KDE/GNOME/FreeDesktop/.../ Mageia Linux"?
and don't forget Posix :) -- André
