no gnu
no gnu
Posted Aug 21, 2009 8:38 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (guest, #14462)In reply to: no gnu by drag
Parent article: 40 years of Unix (BBC)
It is far from a perfect metric, but checking the copyright notices for "Free Software Foundation" in binaries in /bin and /usr/bin using strings(1) turns up a total of less than 15% GNU programs on an Ubuntu 9.04 system.
Still, I agree with the sentiment that GNU is what made Linux popular -- and then Linux made GNU popular to the point that we now have a, well, herd of kernels to plug into GNU. ;-)