Linux popularity (from "A-EON Technology: Introducing Tabor and the A1222")

[nicholas]

and now? Who develops now software for AmigaOS and not for Windows?

And Linux is the most deployed OS on the planet.

[nicholas]

Definitely not the case for personal computers and laptops in the US.

~90% of phones, tablets, servers, routers, STB's and most other embedded devices one can think of on the other hand.....

[nicholas]

it is his kind of sarcasm...

but if AmigaOS would have 10.000 user instead of 1.000 it would be better too

No not sarcasm. It's true.

[nicholas]

Even MacOS is a kind of Linux/Unix distribution

It started off that way yes. Was even an official certified UNIX (r) for version 10.7 IIRC.

sorry I understood you wrong (as sarcasm comment)

No worries, half of the time my comments are sarcastic tbh

[nicholas]

Linux users love to claim the android market.
Linux doesn't run on cell phones, a proprietary derivative of it does.
The same with the tablet market.

I wish Linus had had the insight to base his kernel on more modern concepts than UNIX.
Linux has just become another monolithic beast.

As to large firms using it, why wouldn't they adopt free UNIX?

As to individuals being asked to us an OS with UNIX roots?
Personally, I find BSD based OSX to be far easier to work with.

You are confusing Linux with GNU again Jim.

Linux is not a clone of the UNIX operating system, it is a clone of the UNIX kernel.

GNU is a clone of the UNIX operating system that is commonly used with the Linux kernel but also other kernels too.

[nicholas]

I would say GNU _was_ an _attempt_ at cloning a UNIX operating system under the GPL license. The native GNU kernel has always been Hurd, and not Linux. These days, all operating systems are a mix of software under a whole range of licenses, it is pretty much the same software powering all the operating systems. For example I have systems with BSD kernels and mostly GNU user land (Gentoo/FreeBSD), and you can easily have Linux systems that are totally free for GNU user land, not at all uncommon on embedded systems.

I used to run a Debian/kFreeBSD VM just fur playing around but haven't touched it for a long while. Dyson is my new plaything now.

http://osdyson.org/projects/dyson/wiki

[nicholas]

Like one phone I have, which I now wish I'd never done.
Android is still proprietary.



Obviously you didn't grow up watching a large US company and Universities across the country invest their time, effort and money only to have their work purloined by a hack then.
Remember what you guys have already said "created because he couldn't afford'...

But then the Amiga community has a long history of expecting someone else's work at low or no cost, and making excuses for outright theft.

Ahem..... http://morphos.de/intro

[nicholas]

I don't get the whole OS-partisan thing.  I pretty much like them all, with the exception of Windows, which has caused me undue pain over the years.

There's an old saying: if you live in an Amiga house, don't throw stones.

They all have their uses and the PITA issues. I'm with you on Windows being more trouble than it's worth.