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Busy busy busybox

Posted Oct 2, 2006 23:59 UTC (Mon) by Sombrio (guest, #26942)
In reply to: Busy busy busybox by nix
Parent article: Busy busy busybox

I am quite aware that Linux is just the kernel and that 90% of the code on a desktop is GNU. This is just another thing that bothers me about the fanatics. We have to call it GNU/Linux. Well, excuse me, but typing all of this on my phone is hard enough without having to call it GNU/Linux. I am sure you know how hard capital letters are on phone keyboards. Anyway, if you could do me the favor of assuming I mean GNU/Linux when I say Linux that would be a great help.

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Busy busy busybox

Posted Oct 3, 2006 9:17 UTC (Tue) by ayeomans (subscriber, #1848) [Link]

I doubt 90% of any desktop code is GNU. David Wheeler's counts for Red Hat 7 showed around 65% as having GPL or LGPL licences. Not that this is all GNU code either - since the kernel, web browser, X, KDE are not GNU. For embedded systems using BusyBox, even binutils may not be present - I would expect glibc to be the only significant sized GNU code, and that's 1/4 the size of the kernel.

Busy busy busybox

Posted Oct 5, 2006 9:36 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I'd expect embedded systems to be using uClibc, actually.

There's not much FSF-owned code on such systems (which makes the screaming from embedded devs even more peculiar).