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-
There are a number of Linux distributions that do not have a GNU user space, so no.
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.
Do you correct everyone who says Windows instead of Microsoft Windows NT?
Ha, imagine an alternate universe where crowdstrike took down people’s refrigerators.
A chilling thought.
That would be so funny 😂
Please don’t jinx that. I really don’t want my fridge to stop working because of crowdstrike
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.
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
I’d take MS 10x in the butt over Crapple taking over the desktop-market completely. You know what no-competition means for us, yes? And no, Linux is NOT an alternative for everything for everyone. And there probably never will be a linux-desktop-for-the-masses coming right into your supermarket/pc-store.
But Bill Gates is such a nice guy, why do you want him to starve to death?
Lots of routers are BSD.
Fair point…
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
What about lua?
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.
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.
The ones that aren’t BSD-based, anyway, like for instance pfSense.
Or MacOS, or the PlayStation OS.
Netflix and whatsapp servers
Now now, some of it is windows ce still. Amazingly