You are conflating the OS kernel with the developer A On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 10:11 AM Liam Proven via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 04:21, Tony Aiuto via cctalk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would argue that this is totally wrong. iOS, > > Which is a Unix. Derived from Mac OS X, which is an Open Group certified > UNIX™. > > > Android > > A Linux distro. > > > and other mobile > > systems, > > QNX as in Blackberry 10? A Unix. > > Jolla Sailfish? Meego? Tizen? Samsung Bada? Huawei Harmony OS? > > All Linux. > > > with decidedly different user experiences and programming interfaces > > Sure, yes. Still Unices underneath, though. > > > As we get > > better a consumer level containerization and sandboxing, more end users > > are seeing chimera's like Android apps running under ChromeOs > > Linux apps running under Linux: more proof that Linux is Linux, ISTM. > > > or Windows > > apps on macos and Linux. > > WINE is pretty good these days. I use it for several things. > > There are basically 2 OS families left for general-purpose computing: > Windows NT and UNIX. > > DOS is dead. Netware is dead. OS/2 is very very nearly dead. BeOS is > dead; Haiku is alive and developing but very niche. > > RISC OS is alive but very niche. > > AmigaOS is not well at all and even including MorphOS and AROS it's as > niche as RISC OS or more so. > > Symbian is dead. NewtonOS is dead. Classic MacOS is dead. > > CP/M is surprisingly alive for something so old and rudimentary and > seeing some activity, e.g. CPMish, but I don't think anyone would > claim it has much of a future. CCP/M is dead although I think Toshiba > just about supports 4680 and 4690. > > VMware was originally based around Linux although the company tried > hard to cover that up. Xen is alive and well but it's not a GP OS, I'd > say. > > I'm struggling to think of anything else. There are things but they're > even more niche than say Haiku. Redox OS? Genode? HelenOS? > > > -- > Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: [email protected] – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: [email protected] > Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven > UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 >
