[ale] Time to stir the pot

[Michael Trausch]

On 01/04/2012 01:24 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
> If memory serves, Richard Stallman started the GNU Project out of his
> days at MIT and UNIX.  He never (until recently?) had a kernel for his
> work though.  GNU Project provided bits and pieces of the pie but never
> the kernel.  This is where Linus and his tweaking of Minix fell into
> place but well after RMS got his work going.  The relationship of
> GNU/Linux is a marriage more than a following of coat tails that I'm
> aware of...
> 
> Guys & Gals:  Do I have my history right on this?

Essentially.  GNU was started the year I was born, or the year before,
if memory serves.

The GNU kernel, Hurd, is still really not something that anybody uses
except perhaps as a virtual machine.

Linux came in 1991, and the "standard" distributions adopted the GNU
system to fill in everything that was outside of the kernel, with minor
things here and there to fill in the blanks that neither project
implemented for whatever reason.

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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