Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.
  • qjkxbmwvz
    92·
    4 months ago

    Yeah and good luck mentioning that macOS is UNIX.

    • onlinepersona
      614·
      4 months ago4 months ago

      Because everybody knows who it’s made by (one of the biggest corps who hates freedom). Just because one brick of a building is open source doesn’t mean the entire building is great.

      Might as well promote a Chinese Linux distro and ignore the possible implications of its source.

      Anti Commercial-AI license

      • c10l
        80·
        4 months ago

        UNIX != open source.

        In fact, most flavours have historically been commercial and proprietary.

          • c10l
            71·
            4 months ago

            You responded to “macOS is UNIX” with “it’s not open source”. I’m just illustrating how these 2 things are not correlated.

            In any case, macOS is based on OpenBSD. Even the original BSD, which OpenBSD is based on, was not initially open source.

            Everything you said was a straw man.

            • undefined
              20·
              4 months ago

              I can’t vouch for what it’s based on but I’ve always read the first release of macOS (then Mac OS X) was based on FreeBSD 4.2, not OpenBSD.

              • c10l
                20·
                4 months ago

                You might be right. In either case, the argument stands but thanks for the correction.

              • c10l
                60·
                4 months ago

                I wouldn’t want your help anyway, considering you think your reading comprehension is better than mine. 😆

        • undefined
          20·
          4 months ago

          I think people like to say it isn’t simply because they don’t agree with Apple.

          It’s UNIX but the way it’s set up both is and isn’t aligned with UNIX conventions, and it’s definitely off base with Linux despite the ease with which Linux utilities can be ported.

          • c10l
            30·
            4 months ago

            Linux is quite an oddball in the UNIX world, tbh. It’s the most popular these days, and the one I’m most familiar with, but most Linux OSs are a lot more GNU than they are UNIX.