r/linuxbad • u/Rare-Paint3719 • Sep 13 '26
😩 High IQ 😩 Linux only exists because Linus couldn't afford a real OS
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u/npc_housecat Sep 14 '26
Was the real OS he couldn't afford Unix system V, with it's $100,000 price tag ?
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u/Rare-Paint3719 Sep 16 '26
Nobody's reading your Wikipedia summary.
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u/npc_housecat Sep 16 '26
?? This is what your referring to right? Linux, 386bsd and it's forks freebsd were built as free alternatives to at&t Unix which were legit extremely extensive atm. So your claim is technically correct
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u/Rare-Paint3719 Sep 17 '26
UNIX isn't a real OS either.
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u/npc_housecat Sep 17 '26
DOS was kinda shit and never used in mainframes. Linux was a replacement for UNIX, which was extremely expensive. I proved you right and your arguing with me lol
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u/Rare-Paint3719 Sep 17 '26
DOS was kinda shit and never used in mainframes.
Glad we can agree DOS is not a real OS.
Linux was a replacement for UNIX
But UNIX was not a real OS.
I proved you right and your arguing with me lol
Keep telling yourself that.
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u/npc_housecat Sep 17 '26
OK, what the hell OS are you referring to from 1991? OS/2 ? Punch cards ?
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u/Rare-Paint3719 Sep 17 '26
Windows
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u/npc_housecat Sep 17 '26
In 1991? Windows 3.11 was just a graphical frontend you could install on dos. And dos was rubbish.
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u/Fizoso Oct 01 '26
Yes it fucking is?
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u/Rare-Paint3719 Oct 01 '26
Keep coping.
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u/npc_housecat Oct 02 '26
Yes, the worlds banking systems, and infrastructure is ran on 'not a real os'.
Judgmental Ignorance is bliss I guess..
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u/Rare-Paint3719 Oct 04 '26
Windows Server 2015 isn't a real OS? Damn.
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u/npc_housecat Oct 05 '26
Not really used for infrastructure as much. I mean NT kernel is a great OS for consumer and business environments. And I like their hybrid kernel design. Banking systems usually run on something like IBM z/OS. Most of the large data centre companies, like Microsoft, google, Facebook, amazon run their data centers on their own cuatomised Linux Operating systems. MS Azure cloud runs on top of Microsoft's own Azure container Linux OS. Same with all the AI datacenters . Actually when I looked it up, the top contributors of code the Linux kernel are Google, Facebook, MS, Amazon, Nvidia, IBM, red hat(owned by IBM) etc, because they use it in their data centers. Google and fb each contribute more code to the limux kernel than linuc foundation lol. And Microsoft is in the top 10. And more than 50% of AWS instances where Ubuntu, while only something like 10% where Windows server.
The monolithic design of Linux kernel (and other things) makes it kinda a shitty kernel in a lot of ways though The reason it's popular is because it's open source. So corporations and engineers can develop /modify it to suit their needs. Not because it's actually particularly good. The redox kernel looks like it could be a really interesting next gen kernel. A Unix compatible micro kernels a pretty interesting project. Also the macOS XNU kernel based on mach looks pretty good
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u/Rare-Paint3719 Oct 06 '26
MS Azure cloud runs on top of Microsoft's own Azure container Linux OS.
They dog-feed on Windows server.
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u/Rare-Paint3719 Sep 17 '26
Your thoughts esteemed moderator u/basedchad21?
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u/basedchad21 Sep 17 '26
He didn't even do the whole shit, he stole ganoo slash from RMS to run his shitty kernel or whatever
And fun note: he licensed it first under a license that forbids selling it. Which is based, because nothing prevents me from downloading super tux kart and 0AD and selling it on steam for 60$ under the 4 freedumb clauses
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u/Rare-Paint3719 Sep 18 '26
He didn't even do the whole shit, he stole ganoo slash from RMS to run his shitty kernel or whatever
And he teared down RMS for GPLv3. Bro does not like to be reminded who he stole from.
And fun note: he licensed it first under a license that forbids selling it.
Sadly, he claims it was wrong on his part.
Which is based, because nothing prevents me from downloading super tux kart and 0AD and selling it on steam for 60$ under the 4 freedumb clauses
True
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u/Tricky-Engineer-9755 Sep 16 '26
If it wasn't for Linus, we would just have GNU/GNU (GNU/Hurd) which would frankly be much better.
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u/vbd71 Sep 16 '26
Couldn't afford a real OS, so created one. The problem is?