From a19dce1a1302e0974a82942237636fa8eb24a67f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guilmour Rossi Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:24:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] "Editor, compiler, and debugger" well, that's GNU! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit If you loved a "free operating system that came with an editor, compiler, and debugger", well than you are talking exactly about the GNU Project, including the Emacs, GCC and GDB - with the Linux kernel. As said at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.en.html: ``` By 1990 we had either found or written all the major components except one—the kernel. Then Linux, a Unix-like kernel, was developed by Linus Torvalds in 1991 and made free software in 1992. Combining Linux with the almost-complete GNU system resulted in a complete operating system: the GNU/Linux system. Estimates are that tens of millions of people now use GNU/Linux systems, typically via GNU/Linux distributions. The principal version of Linux now contains non-free firmware “blobs”; free software activists now maintain a modified free version of Linux, called Linux-libre. ``` --- index.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/index.md b/index.md index 883af8e..e9a9be7 100644 --- a/index.md +++ b/index.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ layout: default The Octocat is out of the bag: GitHub is joining Microsoft and I will become the new CEO when the deal closes later this year. I’m confident that this change will be great for GitHub and developers around the world, and I wanted to take the opportunity to introduce myself. -Who am I? My name is Nat and I’ve been a developer since I was six. I’ve been active in open source since the 90s when I discovered Linux. +Who am I? My name is Nat and I’ve been a developer since I was six. I’ve been active in open source since the 90s when I discovered GNU/Linux. I was blown away to discover a free operating system that came with an editor, compiler, and debugger---all of the tools you need to be a developer, and all of the source code! It was an incredible opportunity for a teenager in a small town in Virginia to learn from the best developers in the world. I spent 15 years working with Linux and founded a couple of open source companies. My first commit to GitHub was in 2009, when GitHub was a year old.