Am Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:07:42 -0400 schrieb Warp:
> Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmail com> wrote:
>> Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a GNU variant with the FreeBSD kernel, which is
>> not GPL-licensed.
>
> Before Sun Microsystems made their Solaris operating system open
> source,
> was there any free Unix-based operating system out there which was *not*
> based on GNU? Was there even any which was not based on gcc and its
> system libraries?
Didn't some BSD variants came with at least their own binutils at some
point? As far as I understand the BSD variants are historically not GNU
systems in the sense that they were developed by the FSF as a free OS -
even if they use GNU software as compilers today.
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