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> Linux won in servers and supercomputing, but not in end user computing "End user computing" these days means mobile, and mobile is dominated by Linux (in App
by toyg 4y ago
> Linux won in servers and supercomputing, but not in end user computing
"End user computing" these days means mobile, and mobile is dominated by Linux (in Apple's case BSD, but we're splitting hair) and Chrome/WebKit - which began as KHTML.
The only area where opensource failed is the desktop, and that's also because of Microsoft's skill in defending their moats.
- kenjackson 4y agoThe kernel isn't the OS/environment. Distiling iOS to BSD is just not useful in the context of this discussion.
- toyg 4y agoThe kernel is absolutely the OS, the desktop environment is an interface to it.
- kenjackson 4y agoThe kernel is part of it. But it's not all of it. Again, especially in the context of this discussion.
- tremon 4y agoIs e.g. libc part of the OS, or the desktop environment?