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How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

Posted Jun 2, 2011 17:23 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux? by jordi
Parent article: How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

I didn't realise how dead it was. Most recent release 2008; ChangeLog lists a release on ?? February 2009, so presumably hasn't been touched much since then; cvsweb shows that even the 4.8.0 release notes were never completed. X server changelog last updated on Feb 1 2009. Not a single update that I can see after that date.

Zombies with shotgun wounds in their feet move more than this. This is a project with zero active developers. (I wonder what David Dawes is doing with his time, now he threw his co-developers out of the house because they wouldn't give him enough credit and discovered that when they've left the house is so very empty?)


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