Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.
  • VikEnglish
    4•6 months ago

    And the Linux / Unix-specific ecosystem & technology arguments therein.

      • @[email protected]
        -7•6 months ago

        Because everybody knows who it’s made by (one of the biggest corps who hates freedom). Just because one brick of a building is open source doesn’t mean the entire building is great.

        Might as well promote a Chinese Linux distro and ignore the possible implications of its source.

        Anti Commercial-AI license

        • @c10l
          8•6 months ago

          UNIX != open source.

          In fact, most flavours have historically been commercial and proprietary.

            • @c10l
              6•6 months ago

              You responded to “macOS is UNIX” with “it’s not open source”. I’m just illustrating how these 2 things are not correlated.

              In any case, macOS is based on OpenBSD. Even the original BSD, which OpenBSD is based on, was not initially open source.

              Everything you said was a straw man.

              • Prison Mike
                2•6 months ago

                I can’t vouch for what it’s based on but I’ve always read the first release of macOS (then Mac OS X) was based on FreeBSD 4.2, not OpenBSD.

                • @c10l
                  2•6 months ago

                  You might be right. In either case, the argument stands but thanks for the correction.

                • @c10l
                  6•6 months ago

                  I wouldn’t want your help anyway, considering you think your reading comprehension is better than mine. 😆

          • Prison Mike
            2•6 months ago

            I think people like to say it isn’t simply because they don’t agree with Apple.

            It’s UNIX but the way it’s set up both is and isn’t aligned with UNIX conventions, and it’s definitely off base with Linux despite the ease with which Linux utilities can be ported.

            • @c10l
              3•6 months ago

              Linux is quite an oddball in the UNIX world, tbh. It’s the most popular these days, and the one I’m most familiar with, but most Linux OSs are a lot more GNU than they are UNIX.