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A certain (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
by q3k 2y ago
A certain (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
- bawolff 2y agoIndeed, that was my first thought. (Almost) Every mainstream best in class open source product was at one point the kind of crappy open source alternative to an established product.
- Qwertious 2y ago[flagged]
- gpm 2y ago~45% followed by Windows at ~28% iOS at ~18% and MacOS at ~6% (huge error bars on all those numbers). But really despite having the plurality of the end user market it's real dominance is in the server market.
- krisoft 2y agoBeing successful and being “the main anything” is not the same though. Linux as an operating system is very succesfull. Used by all the time on a ton of servers powering a lot of important things. It is also not the main desktop OS. Both of these statements can be, and are, true.
- Zambyte 2y agoIt's certainly the main kernel in my house, between the phones, desktops, steam decks, servers, laptops... I'd put the market share at about 95% or so. If you mean globally, not sure. It doesn't affect me
- RachelF 2y agoDon't forget BSD - all Apple operating systems are based on it.
- ThrowawayR2 2y agoThe original poster is asking about open source alternative SaaSes and Linux/BSD, gcc, Blender, Firefox, etc. is not a SaaS.