Comment on I love a good fractal
don@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoObligatory mention of GNU:
GNU’s
Not
Unix!
And if one’s adventurous, GNU HURD <—> HIRD.
Comment on I love a good fractal
don@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoObligatory mention of GNU:
GNU’s
Not
Unix!
And if one’s adventurous, GNU HURD <—> HIRD.
addie@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Think if the GNU project had spent less time working on ‘clever’ recursive acronyms and fitting Scheme into everything, and more time hacking, we might actually be using their kernel.
Linus locked himself in his bedroom for the summer and got almost all of POSIX working on 386. That’s the level of geek to aspire to. If RMS had just decided to name his kernel after himself rather than messing, we’d all be be using Stallix instead.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
To be fair, GNU did a ton of work at that time (and today still). GCC and glibc alone are monumental works of software. Add programs like emacs and you now have millions of lines of code you need to develop and maintain.