Busybox is GNU. The fact that FSF doesn't own it is immaterial. I developed it for Debian GNU/Linux.
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 11:07 AM onefang <onefang_dev...@sledjhamr.org> wrote: > On 2022-01-20 18:40:13, Antony Stone wrote: > > On Thursday 20 January 2022 at 17:24:46, Peter Duffy wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2022-01-16 at 04:12 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECCr_KFl41E > > > > > > Thanks for the link to that - brilliant talk. I've always thought that > > > Brian Kernighan himself was the great communicator in the UNIX group - > I > > > wonder whether "The C Programming Language" and "The Unix Programming > > > Environment" would have happened without his obvious ability to take > > > abstruse and difficult material and make it accessible. > > > > > > If I had one incredibly tiny nit to pick, it would be that he didn't > > > mention GNU (it appeared once in the slide showing Linus' original > > > email). Without GNU, it's reasonable to suppose that linux wouldn't > have > > > happened. > > > > I disagree with "it's reasonable to suppose that". > > > > Linus Torvalds was building a system for himself, partly (I believe) > because > > he liked Unix but couldn't afford a Unix system of his own, and > therefore he > > was of course going to build it using as much free (of charge) software > as he > > could. > > > > That meant GNU. > > > > I think the Unix philosophy and design principles are beautiful, and > formed > > the basis of an amazingly efficient system, but some of those principles > are > > embodied in Linux and some are embodied in GNU (for example, devices as > files, > > and pipes, in the first; and tools such as tr, cut, grep in the second), > so > > these days we can't really separate the two - Linux is nothing without > GNU > > (although the reverse is not true). > > It's entirely possible to have a Linux OS without any GNU software. > Using such things as busybox and toybox for example. > > -- > A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants > coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng >
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