The internet predates Linux, works just fine without any Linux machine involved and will survive Linux.

Are you aware of the fact that FOSS is more than Linux?

You're right. The internet runs on unix, and linux is the most popular variant, and likely to remain so in view of the price (or lack thereof) and software choice. This is a Windows vs. linux thread. What exactly is your point, or are you just trolling?

They've been trolling this thread since 2018, and are far from subtle, but plenty of regulars keep feeding them anyway...

(Of course their point here is still valid: whatever one's thought on Linux and Linux-based OSes, it is not essential; the Internet runs on cross-platform software.)

You cannot run ANYTHING using ONLY the operating system, so clearly I know that those governments running entirely on FOSS are running more than Linux.
How could you miss that?

As an aside, Linux is about useless without the GNU toolset, and benefits from other software (FOSS and Proprietary) developed to run on FOSS platforms. And, in case you missed it, Linux is not the ONLY FOSS operating system! Linux is just the one that has done the most to totally replace Microsoft options in the server space, and the greatest threat to Microsoft on the desktop space. (Even greater than that little fruit machine company!)

He seems to be participating in a "Windows vs Linux thread?
It's a Windows vs Linux thread. It was created for this purpose - i.e. to keep these kind of comments in one thread (the religion thread servers a similar purpose).

Some stats:

https://w3techs.com/technologies/ove...erating_system
https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-unix
We can deduct that Linux seems to run on ~ 40% of web servers. That's actually less that I expected. I would have gone for 60% +

Pay attention to "unknown" in the second link. It's likely that far more websites run on something derived from Solaris or one of the BSDs than is reported there, but none of those would come close to 50% of web servers, even combined.

If you believe YesItsMe is a troll - stop feeding him. :twocents:

I’m pretty sure that most of the posts here which serve the sole purpose of bashing Microsoft are notably less fact-based than what you call “trolling”. However, no, Linux is not a variant of Unix (and it does not want to be one anyway).

While we’re at it: you ARE aware of this thread’s tags, right?

Correction: Linux is not a variant of UNIX (and it does not want to be one anyway). It is definitely a variant of Unix.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...is-unix-37551/

I added that orange text, did you mean to say "not variant"?


Isn't the official description "linux is a unix-like OS" ?

RH, mint, rocky, deb, ubuntu, android, make that huge list, are all linux based variant OS's.

I understood what hazel as being quite correct as originally written. You added a word that made it LESS correct.

I don't understand what you say there, nor did I understand the linux variant comment, even with UNIX vs Unix. Was it the UNIX vs Unix that made it MORE correct?

Yes, of course it was. That will teach me not to try to be witty on this forum in future.

Linux is a kernel, it is not a UNIX variant.

The GNU operating system qualifies as "UNIX-like". GNU stands for "GNU's Not UNIX".

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

GNU/Linux and Android are certainly "UNIX-like", but are not UNIX variants or derivatives. The latter would be OS like macOS/iOS, Openindiana and other Illumos distributions and of course the BSDs.