“Cygnus, the leader in open source software, today announced
that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has appointed the EGCS
Steering Committee as the official GNU maintainer for GCC.
“Hosted by Cygnus at http://egcs.cygnus.com/, EGCS is as an open
source software project to further the development of the GNU
compiler software…”
“GCC is one of the primary tools used to build the Linux kernel,
and one of the fundamental reasons that Linux has been successfully
ported to so many microprocessor architectures.
“Cygnus has a long standing history of making significant
contributions to the GCC compiler and sponsoring open source
projects such as EGCS,” said Linus Torvalds, creator of
Linux…”