[Info-vax] [OT] Linux use, was: Re: Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-01-19, MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 19-jan-2013 1:07, Howard S Shubs wrote:
>> The only operating system which seems to have a serious future
>> is Linux.
>
> Mostly for "LAMP" web servers, but hardly on 'the desktop' and
> (especially there) Linux is still extremely marginal.  This was
> also exactly the area which VMS supposedly underestimated.  The
> worrisome part is, that many 'mission-critical' things are on
> Windows systems; for instance, I've seen TV news imagery from
> navy vessels here, with Windows logos on the background (of the
> 'desktop', I presume)...
>

Linux (at least the kernel) bypassed the desktop for normal users
and went straight to their consumer level handheld devices where it
has become dominant in just a few short years.

The userland tools on those devices however are not the full blown
tools which desktop Linux users are used to, but a restricted version
suitable for the devices in question.

Simon.

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