Linux creator Linus Torvalds shares Millennium Technology Prize

Post by PerryCox » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 9:23 AM UTC

entropy_ wrote: post #20

dr42 wrote: post #14

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I was using Unix long before Linux came along, and you're right it was the fork that pushed the most for the desktop. Even though today I am using it as my desktop that's really only because I write server software. I think the main thrust for Unix on the desktop was in fact OS/X, but among us geeks it has been Ubuntu. But that was really my point, it was the distros like RH and Ubuntu that put together something ins…

While it is true that OSX very probably accounts for more unix-on-the-desktop than linux, they are two very different desktop audiences. While OSX is indeed a unix, it hides this so well that unless you know what you're looking for you would never use any of the things that most people mean when they refer to unix. I write this on a iMac I use for developing iOS applications, but honestly, if I hadn't been using linu…

Post by cristianocd » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 12:42 PM UTC

entropy_ wrote: post #20

dr42 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was using Unix long before Linux came along, and you're right it was the fork that pushed the most for the desktop. Even though today I am using it as my desktop that's really only because I write server software. I think the main thrust for Unix on the desktop was in fact OS/X, but among us geeks it has been Ubuntu. But that was really my point, it was the distros like RH and Ubuntu that put together something ins…

While it is true that OSX very probably accounts for more unix-on-the-desktop than linux, they are two very different desktop audiences. While OSX is indeed a unix, it hides this so well that unless you know what you're looking for you would never use any of the things that most people mean when they refer to unix. I write this on a iMac I use for developing iOS applications, but honestly, if I hadn't been using linu…