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To be fair, Linux powers quite literally billions of devices
by IntelMiner 5y ago
To be fair, Linux powers quite literally billions of devices
- rbanffy 5y agoAnd those Windows boxes wouldn’t be able to do much without the ones Linux powers, but that’s beside the point: Windows is an OS. It’s quirky and feels weird for the Unix crowd, but a lot of it will be oddly familiar to the VMS elders.
- chrisseaton 5y agoAnd a hundred million isn't enough to be real?
- arendtio 5y agoIt is a joke to say that it is not a real OS. But if you want to argue: You could say that a 'real OS' must be 'mostly POSIX-compliant' [1]. That way most other OS (Linux, MacOS, iOS) but not Windows would be included in your definition of a 'real OS' ;-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#Mostly_POSIX-compliant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#Mostly_POSIX-compliant
- chrisseaton 5y agoI wouldn’t get why POSIX is the only way to design an OS.
- rbanffy 5y agoIt’s not. It’s an API. IBM’s zOS has a POSIX-compliant Unix subsystem and it has absolutely nothing to do with Unix under its hood.
- arendtio 5y agoIt is not. But that way you could pretend to have an objective definition of the term 'real OS' and exclude Windows while including most other major OS.
- edgyquant 5y agoWindows is mostly posix compliant as it had a POSIX subsystem until 2000, then it had Windows Services for UNIX/Interix and now days has Windows Subsystem for Linux.
- cobalt 5y agoregardless of anything else, windows is older than posix... so posix should arguably be windows compliant :P