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by tingletech 1402 days ago
most of the user space tools originated from GNU (such as gcc), linux really just brought the kernel.
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yjftsjthsd-h 1402 days ago
Alpine Linux and clang say otherwise. GNU is good, but it's not the only Linux userspace.
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tingletech 1401 days ago
sure, but it was the original one. upstream posts contends GNU just brought the license.
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what-imright 1402 days ago
Just? It’s 28 million lines of code, the world’s largest software project
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umanwizard 1402 days ago
What counts as one software project? The combined Facebook codebase, for example, is surely larger than that.
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anthk 1402 days ago
Chromium is bigger than that.
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