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repsilat on Oct 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Richard Stallman’s rider

> the functionality provided by GNU is critical and would require a large effort to replace

This isn't really true. You could just grab your userspace from a BSD, or Plan9Port. Clang and LLVM do well enough to replace GCC on most important architectures.

jrockway on Oct 27, 2011 | [–]

Clang and LLVM do well enough to replace GCC on most important architectures.

25 years later. Very few works are relevant for that long.

chanux on Oct 27, 2011 | [–]

I would like to see someone go make a free operating system without using a single GNU piece. Just for the kicks.

andrewf on Oct 27, 2011 | [–]

Android.

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