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How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

Posted Jun 1, 2011 9:06 UTC (Wed) by danieldk (guest, #27876)
In reply to: How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux? by khim
Parent article: How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

But then Acrobat Reader is not part of Debian either, and probably a lot of Debian users will never install it. The point is that you can provide much of the functionality of a standard open source desktop or server system without glibc or even gcc.

(By the way, Opera offers a native FreeBSD version.)


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