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Odd choice for a title ...

Posted Dec 8, 2011 1:48 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Odd choice for a title ... by theophrastus
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Of course not. Rather, Linux is just a kernel, and the Posix world is much older and bigger. Linux was initially built so the pre-existing GNU and BSD userland utilities could run on cheap hardware; the shells came first.

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