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From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX")
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:20:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2OhodnTWZ1GWOJCbBwefq7H=Dn+ZvN=z1fFy4O9CP8BMQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47c38ea0-accb-407b-26c8-6b4877657b21@kilonet.net>

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That's not really fair.   The compiler and the utilities was developed for
UNIX long before the Linux kernel existed.  This is why so many of consider
"Linux" just the current version of UNIX.

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Arthur Krewat <krewat at kilonet.net> wrote:

> Everything. I'm trying to grok how long Linux as a whole was in active
> development. That includes all the GNU utilities, GCC, everything.
>
> Just like a "regular" corporate development environment would have devoted
> to the cause :)
>
>
>
>
> On 3/14/2017 11:57 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
>
>> On 14 Mar 2017 11:51 -0400, from krewat at kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat):
>>
>>> in reality, how much of Linux was based on previous works?
>>>
>> Linux the kernel, or Linux the usable operating system (which would
>> include at least the essential userspace parts)?
>>
>>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-14 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-14 14:43 Clem Cole
2017-03-14 15:38 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-14 15:51   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-14 15:56     ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-14 15:57     ` Michael Kjörling
2017-03-14 16:20       ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-14 18:06         ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-14 18:31           ` Clem Cole
2017-03-14 18:59             ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-14 18:20         ` Clem Cole [this message]
2017-03-14 19:48           ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-15 14:32             ` Michael Kjörling
2017-03-15 15:36               ` Arthur Krewat
     [not found]                 ` <58c9623b.law1Aw2ufj3DFNA1%schily@schily.net>
2017-03-15 15:54                   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-15 15:59                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-15 17:43                   ` Warner Losh
2017-03-15 19:02                     ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-15 19:14                       ` Warner Losh
2017-03-14 18:41         ` Warner Losh
2017-03-17 18:16           ` [TUHS] GNU vs BSD before the lawsuit and before Linux Tony Finch
2017-03-17 18:52             ` Jeremy C. Reed
2017-03-19  7:18               ` arnold
2017-03-19  9:05                 ` Wesley Parish
2017-03-19 18:37                 ` Warner Losh
2017-03-17 19:54             ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-14 18:18   ` [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX") Clem Cole
2017-03-14 16:20 ` tfb
2017-03-14 22:45 ` Josh Good
2017-03-15  1:11   ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15  7:55     ` arnold
2017-03-15 19:28     ` Josh Good
2017-03-15 19:35       ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15 20:26         ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-15 23:22           ` 'Josh Good'
2017-03-15 19:45       ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15 20:27         ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-15 20:48           ` Clem Cole
2017-03-15 23:46           ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-16  0:45             ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16  1:27               ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-16  3:09                 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-16  3:18                   ` Charles Anthony
2017-03-16  3:36               ` Dan Cross
2017-03-16  4:08                 ` arnold
2017-03-16 12:51               ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-16 13:18                 ` William Pechter
2017-03-17 21:20               ` Josh Good
2017-03-16 15:42           ` Chet Ramey
2017-03-16 17:29             ` William Pechter
2017-03-15 23:55         ` Josh Good
2017-03-16  0:05           ` William Pechter
2017-03-15 20:08       ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16  0:46         ` Wesley Parish
2017-03-16  0:52           ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16 19:47       ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-17  2:16         ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-17 15:55           ` Warner Losh
2017-03-17 21:11           ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-14 19:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-14 20:05 Clem Cole
2017-03-14 20:16 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-14 20:54 ` Dan Cross
2017-03-14 21:19   ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16 15:40 Norman Wilson
2017-03-16 17:26 ` William Pechter
2017-03-16 18:45   ` Clem Cole
2017-03-16 22:17 ` Dave Horsfall

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