So I’m curious. If you mean the Linux kernel, when and how do you think it went off down the wrong path?
It is one thing. FreeBSD and NetBSD are not one thing. Linux is one thing.
And I meant Linux, not distributions and userlands, so you’re the troll here.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Around year 1999. No particular reason, just it seems to have gained recognition and approval among the big fish then.
If by “when” you mean analytically, then when it stopped being “a hobby project started by a Finnish student with participation of volunteers from all around the world” and became one of the houses of power.
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Oh. It’s you again. Good to see your shallow takes haven’t changed.
Can’t you have the foresight to actually read and research why things like the FOSS projects we rely on are validated? Linux is owned by no one, and is used by everyone who wants to. Plain and simple. More adoption and more contributors means a better experience for the end user and the developer.
Corporate users are a feature, not a bug, and if anything, their adoption does more to cement the success of the project more than anything else. Plus, the Linux kernel can be wrapped into many different distros designed for transparency, why not pick your favorite one, instead of the “corporate standard”?
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Oh. It’s you again. Good to see your shallow takes haven’t changed.
I don’t remember you, but I get Dunning-Krueger vibes from things you write which seem to be typical “Linux as a success story” quotes without insight.
Can’t you have the foresight to actually read and research
I prefer to observe them in the wild. I mean, that is what’s called research, but it strongly seems that you by research mean something else.
why things like the FOSS projects we rely on are validated? Linux is owned by no one, and is used by everyone who wants to.
This is as fallacious as “scientific communism” and for the same reason. Because there are dimensions of this where the general consensus of those actually applying resources is neutrality, where it works as you say, and there are dimensions where it’s not.
Or you might read that Karl Popper’s article on the blind zones of dialectics. Corporate participation in a big common open project works similarly to dialectics.
Corporate users are a feature, not a bug, and if anything, their adoption does more to cement the success of the project more than anything else.
Having a stronger Prussia did nothing of the sort for the HRE, and having Ustinov as minister of defense with all his power did nothing of the sort for the USSR, and Google did nothing of the sort for the Web.
But I prefer to live this through with many things today, rather than try to fix it to my limited ability.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
www.linux.org/pages/download/
fuck off, one thing LOL
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Yes, and the same can be said about Windows NT, yet it’s called one thing. Honestly I think I’m getting tired of American intelligence.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Linux is only “one thing” if you’re a kernel/driver developer. And even then, Linux via Android (linux fork) is completely different from the normal one.
As a user land developer, you can have glibc or musl, initd or systemd. Is dbus being used? They all work differently.
Windows is one thing to support. Linux has countless configurations.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I would expect Windows RT and Windows CE to somewhat differ too. Despite being NT.
Why would an application developer care about the init system? Start scripts and units for demonized stuff can be honestly made by users and maintainers, if that’s expected to be packaged. If it’s not, it’s half an hour of googling to make functional enough ones for most purposes.
DBus is such a common thing that there are applications not working without it running, and nobody really complains. You can assume it is, or you can ignore its existence. That’s changed by installing\uninstalling DBus. Not a difference between two operating systems, LOL.
glibc or musl - yeah. Different enough. Still the OS is the same, can use a musl chroot from a glibc system. Can use as many chroots as you want.