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Embedded systems (POS terminals, scientific instruments, satellite C&C, etc.), servers, NAS storage systems, phones, tables, PDAs, streaming video devices (Roku, Chromecast, Fire TV, etc.).
Look around you at your electronic devices. If it has a non-trivial display and human interface, wifi, HDMI, etc., and it's not running Windows or OSX, then chances are it's running Linux.
Tracking a herd of wild horses.
Highway traffuc control.
Nuclear missel war heads
Cooking the crackers you eat.
Pumping the oil from Saudi Arabia to the refineries in Houston.'
Electrical co-generation plants.
Right now, four primary operating systems dominate the wearables market: Android, Android Wear, Tizen, and Linux. Two upcoming wearables will soon hit your wrists: iOS for wearable devices and MediaTek’s LinkIt operating system. And then there’s a rumored wearables OS, soon to arrive from LG.
There are actually people on the internet who have got versions of Linux to run on their digital cameras. Take, for example, the fellow who has bought a Canon camera simply to put a version of Linux onto it and play around with it.
Distribution: Cinnamon Mint 20.1 (Laptop) and 20.2 (Desktop)
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What are 2 non-desktop-computer uses for Linux?
1.) Running Google? (That's the Corportaion, not the search engine!)
2.) 90%+ of Supercomputers run Linux, Climate modeling, Financial modeling, etc, anything where heavy number crunching is needed.
microsoft may owned the desktop market and is found in a few other places outside the desktop, but linux is definitely more widely in use than windows because of it's scalability to be as small as a few megabytes and higher.
This struck me as a drive by, asking homework questions, and then I checked the members personal page:
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I am an IT student at Everest institute and need answers desperately!
So is or isn't this, against the rules?
While trying to click the quote I hit the helpful link, have one on me!
While homework is against the rules, most people here are willing to help someone who is really trying to learn - the human thing to do and better than being forum police!
Everyone has different approaches to deciding which are "ok" and which are abusive, some answers are sarcastic and some simply answer the questions when possible.
For myself, I try to look at the OP's history and make some judgment about it being a copy/paste, something-for-nothing no effort post, or someone who needs help and would benefit by it. It is always permissable to be helpful and kind whatever the rules strictly may be.
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