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-
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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.
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Thank you Mr. Stallman!
A name is just a simple reference to a system composed of interrelated and essential OS components: Kernel, windowing system, networking tools, virtual memory, user interfaces, the list goes on…
Yes GNU is an essential suite of tools but so is X (or Wayland) and many other unnamed yet critical subsystems.
Now GPL licensing on the other hand, THAT is a foundational precept to FOSS that deserves sole credit back to a single project.
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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).
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Ha, imagine an alternate universe where crowdstrike took down people's refrigerators.
That would be so funny 😂
A chilling thought.
Please don't jinx that. I really don't want my fridge to stop working because of crowdstrike
Let's face it: if you have a refrigerator that is connected to the Internet, you probably deserve it. :P
^Disclaimer:^ ^Obviously^ ^not^ ^of^ ^course.^ ^I'm^ ^just^ ^making^ ^a^ ^joke^ ^because^ ^IoT^ ^kitchen^ ^appliances^ ^are^ ^stupid.)^
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Nobody uses Linux guys, that shits for nerds
True. I use arch btw
Woah, you are old. I use nixos btw
Yikes with all the nix drama going on?
I use a custom distro dixos btw
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Lol nerd
Lots of routers are BSD.
Yep.
I came here to make a 'my router uses BSD btw' joke.
PfSense!
Fair point....
Actually it's all Java
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.
Thats like saying your favorite type of cheese is American, sure its technically cheese but its so processed and removed from cheese that its just not the same as mozzarella.
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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.
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.
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Huh, I don't follow supercomputers very often. I didn't realize in the last 10 years UNIX dropped off the map of supercomputers entirely in favor of Linux.
Pretty cool.
I worked in resales for super computers about 10 yrs ago. For x86 based designs we flogged red hat
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And 4.5% of the desktops.
At this rate it should reach 25% of them by 2043.
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Now now, some of it is windows ce still. Amazingly
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