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Between this and their Azure Sphere product, Microsoft may very well be the largest Linux vendor today. As someone who discovered Unix in the early 00s, this m
by babarock 6y ago
Between this and their Azure Sphere product, Microsoft may very well be the largest Linux vendor today.
As someone who discovered Unix in the early 00s, this makes me chuckle. What a world!
- enitihas 6y agoI doubt they would be larger than AWS, specially for Linux.
- close04 6y agoBetween Azure and WSL Microsoft might be shipping more Linux kernels than any other company out there.
- flatiron 6y agomore than android? a year ago there were 2.5 billion active android devices, that's a bunch of linux kernels! [edit] not to mention chromebooks and i would assume most of their consumer products (chromecasts, etc.)
- greggyb 6y agoDo you think WSL counts if not enabled?
- Wohlf 6y agoOptional OS features are stored in WinSxS in case users decide to enable them, so technically they are shipping the Linux kernel with all recent pro/enterprise installs.
- greggyb 6y agoI actually was thinking further on this. WSL is not a Linux kernel. In WSL1, it's a syscall translation layer. In WSL2, it's a highly integrated virtualization environment. You do have to install a Linux distro. So the kernel's not shipping, just an environment in which a kernel can be installed.
- axaxs 6y agoGCP and the little project called 'Android' would probably make Google the leader, by far.
- wiml 6y agoI think you might underestimate how many Linux kernels+userlands show up embedded in non-"computer" devices!
- partiallypro 6y agoThere are so many crappy IoT devices running unpatched Linux, that I doubt it. That is why Azure Sphere was invented, actually...but still there are so many gadgets out there running unmaintained Linux that it's insane.
- close04 6y agoMost likely but I was thinking of shipments made by a single company.
- Random_ernest 6y agoAWS has roughly double the market shared. So it is very likely that they take that title. https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud-market-share/ https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-clou...
- enitihas 6y agoYup, plus Azure had some 40-50% VMs running Windows IIRC, so unlikely to be running more linux than AWS.
- ch_123 6y agoThey were possibly the largest Unix vendor in the 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
- angry_octet 6y agoDefine "largest" in the right way and that might be true, as the market was very fragmented, but certainly not in terms of market share.