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

[MG]

On 19-jan-2013 15:04, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 fullblown
> tools which desktop Linux users are used to, but a restricted
> version suitable for the devices in question.

Android is hardly 'regular Linux' and in some areas is hardly as
open.  Many people don't even realize it's based on Linux.  The
fact that indeed the userland tools are so stripped down (e.g.
"busybox") doesn't improve the situation much either...

  - MG