> In <199901030911.BAA21014@bitmover.com> Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com) wrote:
>
> > Such as? The only substantial chunk is gcc and that isn't part of the
> > operating system.
>
> Such as Libc. I'm NEVER seen ANY Linux distribution without some form of libc.
> ALL libc's for Linux are derived from GNU Libc (1 or 2)... For Linux
> developers libc is somewhat even more important then kernel.
(...)
> Libc, derived from GNU Libc (be it libc4, libc5 or glibc2) is
> inevitable in Linux world...
Unless you want to use the Berkeley libc, which is unencumbered and perfectly
suitable for use under Linux.
> > Yeah, right. Have you actually tried this for any real application?
> > Sure, it's true for simple stuff but it is far from true for anything
> > real.
>
> Yes, there ARE differences between glibc-based Hurd and glibc-based Linux
> (thus GNU/Linux, not just GNU :-), but glibc-based Linux is close to
> glibc-based Hurd then to libc5-based Linux (from application developer
> viewpoint that is).
With the slight exception that both Linuxes are useful systems.
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