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> Linux would have not been possible without the Gnu utilities and the
> compiler used to built has ever been gcc. What would have been of
> Linux if Gcc didn't exist? What of its performance if Gcc had been
> mediocre? The only other 32 bits compiler I am aware of who was
> freely available at the time Linux was written was bcc and the code it
> generated was about two times slower than gcc's.
Where would Linux be without XFree?
Where would Linux be without the BSD components?
bcc might have been bad then, but given the way of the free software
world, probably someone would have fixed it.
Is gnu the only source of the utilities we have? Is there no other tar
that could be used?
I know we use a lot of gnu software - every time I invoke info, I curse
them (but let's not discuss info), but in many cases it's software that
was reimplemented (such as bash) because someone thought it could be done
better.
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