What am I missing?
Linux has been out in the open and running shit since the 1990s.
How exactly is that a secret?
It’s not, but it gets clicks.
If anything, vxworks is the secret one. Huge numbers of embedded devices run vxworks, but the only people who work with it are embedded systems developers.
I thought it was going to talk about MINIX and how all intel CPUs run it on ring -3.
Goddammit! Don’t tell that one, I use it to impress random people at parties.
People just don’t believe me when I tell them.
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I couldn’t find anything on it. What exactly is it?
Very robust OS designed for Embedded applications.
Most noteworthy is NASA used it on almost all of their mars rovers. (I think they switched to Linux on their very last one but I could be wrong)
It is used in a bunch of random stuff you have probably used it without realizing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VxWorks#Notable_usesIf I recall correctly, only the helicopter runs Linux and the rover still runs an RTOS (presumably VxWorks). I remember reading a bunch of posts on Linux blogs about Ingenuity being the first time Linux was run on another planet.
Shh, what part of “secret” don’t you understand?
It’s a real-time operating system frequently used for small and embedded devices.
Keep in mind there’s everyone not in tech. Loads of people probably use their iPhone and MacBooks, or windows and android, or some other combo - might never even look up a single Linux distro, or think about what servers are.
Right. But most people who subscribe to a Linux community on Lemmy have probably heard of Linux before.
Shhhh you’ll give it away
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Linux doesn’t make things secret, Microsoft is the one refusing to share its source code.
Big hardware companies used to get access to the windows source code all the time. It didn’t make it public, but lots of people have seen it by now.
I’m not trying to defend Microsoft, but their software isn’t licensed under the GPL so they really aren’t under any obligation to share the source code.
There are alternatives and people can choose to use Microsoft software or not.
Nobody is saying it is licensed under GPL or that they have a legal obligation to share it.
Just because something is legally fine doesn’t mean I have to like it.
Moral imperative
TempleOS?
Written in holy C
Oh, not Minix?
cries in Management Engine
Licensing issues for Minix. BSD has entered the chat, but it also has licensing issues.
In the BSD case, I feel that many devs worry about their work being taken and used by large corporations without the corporations sharing back to the OSS world. The GPL might not be a panacea to capitalism, but at least it’s more then “do what you like, corporate overlords.”
The things I’ve read (admittedly mostly from the OpenBSD camp) from BSD devs, they seem to not worry about corporations building from their source that much, instead they actively try to get rid of GPL code because it isn’t permissive enough for their standards.
Theo wrote "GPL fans said the great problem we would face is that companies would take our BSD code, modify it, and not give back. Nope—the great problem we face is that people would wrap the GPL around our code, and lock us out in the same way that these supposed companies would lock us out. Just like the Linux community, we have many companies giving us code back, all the time.
But once the code is GPL’d, we cannot get it back."
And Android uses the Linux kernel anyway, despite being heavily locked down.
Nooo don’t tell the secret
clearly cisco ios
Unironically this. Also Juniper Junos.
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I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
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Its dominance was really established with the glorious LinuxCon WorldWide 2021
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Pretty neat video.
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Why are you here?
Definitively does not run my gaming computer tho
It does mine.
Mine, too
Mine, too
I hope it gets fixed soon
I paid about $600 for a tiny gaming computer that comes with it.
