I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux-
That’s the problem, though: a lot of it isn’t GNU, specifically because GNU stuff is GPLv3 and would thus stop the smart TV and IoT device makers from Tivoizing everything all to Hell. Most of that stuff is running bastardized Linux, not GNU/Linux!
Sacrilinux - or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, sacrilege + Lin…
There are a number of Linux distributions that do not have a GNU user space, so no.
Thank you Mr. Stallman!
The only one of those that consistently runs GNU/Linux is supercomputers,
Embedded Linux and Android are not GNU Linuxes.
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Do you correct everyone who says Windows instead of Microsoft Windows NT?
The NT kernel in isolation is apparently quite “ok”, from what i have heard of it. It’s the spyware, malware, driver crap (“windows”) running on/using it which is unquestionably totally fucked and disgusting. If they were to FOSS the NT kernel, I could maybe support an such endeavor.
I was talking to my dad about my job and how people don’t know how to use Linux. He said “Yeah, nobody uses that UNIX stuff anymore.”
Then I pointed out that his phone and his computer both run flavors of UNIX, since he’s been using Apple products since I made him switch by not supporting his issues with Windows, and that most of the websites and apps he’s using are running Linux on the backend.
Well, he is correct. Linux is not UNIX. It is UNIX-like system. And Android is abomination.
I think macOS is actually Unix certified. It at least was at one point.
At one point many years ago. BSD is true UNIX btw.
I looked it up. macOS is still unix certified.
BSD is usually not unix certified, so has to refer to itself as unix like.
What is and isn’t unix is kind of up to what definition you’re working with (pedigree, legally, practically).
BSD is usually not unix certified, so has to refer to itself as unix like.
Wait, really? Not POSIX? Huh
Also another reason I doubt current version macos is certified is:
“Because it’s an expensive and lengthy process. And every version will need to be re-certified.”
And what always gets lost in these discussions is if that old Unix stuff was so amazingly good that we should automatically assume Linux is inferior for not doing it. Even though all the old Unix vendors are basically dead now and replaced by Linux. That might have happened for a reason.
The main difference between being unix certified or not is being willing to pay for it. That’s pretty much it.
Nobody uses Linux guys, that shits for nerds
True. I use arch btw
Lol nerd
Ha, imagine an alternate universe where crowdstrike took down people’s refrigerators.
That’s how we save Pied Piper.
That would be so funny 😂
A chilling thought.
It happened to a bunch of Linux servers a couple months back but nobody cared and so Crowdstrike didn’t change anything so it happened again.
Actually it’s all Java
Oracle wishes. We’re smarter than that.
Sun shines. No, other Sun.
Writing in scala doesn’t make you smart
I got in trouble in a discussion about the most popular Linux distro when I said it’s obviously Android.
Jim: “what’s your favorite district” Mike: “Android of course” Jim:
LOL Favourite? Jury is out. Most popular? Android all the way.
I am constantly amused about how “next year” has been “the year of Linux on the desktop” for 20+ years. Meanwhile, Linux & BSD have pretty much completely taken over the whole world except the desktop in that same time.
You want Microsoft to go out of business, you monster?
Yes
But Bill Gates is such a nice guy, why do you want him to starve to death?
Routers often run on BSD
Wish they didn’t. DIY opnsense/pfsense boxes are much harder for finding compatible NICs because they’re on BSD. Conversely, used enterprise-level NICs often have better drivers on Linux than Windows.
And 4.5% of the desktops.
At this rate it should reach 25% of them by 2043.
Actual desktops are going the way of the dodo for the mass market and Linux netbooks are quite popular. With Microsoft’s current strategy of making a product that is worse and worse for low powered devices, I honestly think it’ll happen sooner, except for businesses.
The ones that aren’t BSD-based, anyway, like for instance pfSense.
Linux
Looming In Networks Until eXtinction
Now now, some of it is windows ce still. Amazingly
