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A turning point for GNU libcA turning point for GNU libcPosted Mar 30, 2012 13:04 UTC (Fri) by civodul (subscriber, #58311)In reply to: A turning point for GNU libc by nix Parent article: A turning point for GNU libc
>> In its early days, the GNU project was forced to focus on a small number of absolutely crucial projects; that is why the first program released under the GNU umbrella was Emacs.
> > Bwahaha. I suspect more significant here was that Emacs already existed (and was the trigger for the whole thing). > > Everything else released early on was pretty crucial infrastructural OS-core stuff.
Indeed.
It should be mentioned that FSF-paid developers, including Roland, were initially developing libc for the GNU operating system, aka. GNU/Hurd. The Linux "port" came later with the work of Ulrich Drepper and others.
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A turning point for GNU libc Posted Mar 30, 2012 13:17 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
The biggest 'other' definitely has to be HJ Lu.
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