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First FOSS OS?

Posted Mar 23, 2007 15:22 UTC (Fri) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: First FOSS OS? by landley
Parent article: The road to freedom in the embedded world

To be totally accurate, libc5 for Linux was a early version of GNU libc, hacked up so it wasn't recognizable anymore (because the starting point was very sorely lacking abandonware; Linux needing a decent libc made GNU libc development (re)start in earnest).

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