100% of the user space programs were from gnu. Compiler was from gnu
The initial filesystem was minix
The kernel was Linux.
So I would say Linus had 100s of man years of ecosystem he could benefit from and that is the oss spirit.
But yeah he did not write a shell or an editor or Compiler etc and the kernel was of course oriented towards an unix like os.imagine you would have had to start from scratch, if you had just had a PC and a bios.
The initial filesystem was minix
The kernel was Linux.
So I would say Linus had 100s of man years of ecosystem he could benefit from and that is the oss spirit.
But yeah he did not write a shell or an editor or Compiler etc and the kernel was of course oriented towards an unix like os.imagine you would have had to start from scratch, if you had just had a PC and a bios.