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There's at least Windows, macOS, FreeBSD as popular and fairly used alternatives. Also, the Linux kernel itself is just one small part of a Linux distro, which
by addicted 5y ago
There's at least Windows, macOS, FreeBSD as popular and fairly used alternatives.
Also, the Linux kernel itself is just one small part of a Linux distro, which means everyone from kernel maintainers, to distro creators/maintainers, to particular app makers have some direct to indirect sway on the kernel development.
- 323 5y agoYou could say the same about WebKit, that it's just a small part of a browser - Chrome/Safari/Edge/Brave/...
- moron4hire 5y agoNote that Chromium hasn't been based on WebKit for almost a decade. Google forked WebKit and created Blink as their rendering engine in 2013. The two have diverged quite a bit. Safari is the only major browser still based on WebKit explicitly. Chrome, Edge, Brave, Samsung Internet, etc., are all based on Chromium and thus have Blink as their rendering engine.