▲ 199 ▼ ELI5: What the heck is linux? (lazysoci.al) submitted 1 year ago by LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world 76 comments fedilink hide all child comments I'm old. I don't understand it.
[–] LadyButterfly@lazysoci.al [S] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children) Omg this us an amazing explanation thanks permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Rednax@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 child) Fun fact: Android is one of those Linux variants. It is, however, so highly modified, that we usually don't really call it 'Linux' anymore. But the core components of Android are most certainly Linux components. So in a pedantic way, way more people directly use Linux than you would think. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago There's pretty much three core OSes out there: Windows Linux BSD Amost everything else is just a variation of these. Android, ChromeOS, PS3 OS, tons of embedded systems like car entertainment systems, and of course all the traditional Linux distros like Ubuntu, Mint, PopOS, Fedora, and so on are Linux. MacOS, iOS, Switch OS, pfSense and tons of embedded systems like routers, and of course all the traditional BSD distros like FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD and so on are BSD based. (Though Switch OS, to be fair, is mostly it's own thing, only borrowing significant portions from BSD.) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Rednax@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 child) Fun fact: Android is one of those Linux variants. It is, however, so highly modified, that we usually don't really call it 'Linux' anymore. But the core components of Android are most certainly Linux components. So in a pedantic way, way more people directly use Linux than you would think. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago There's pretty much three core OSes out there: Windows Linux BSD Amost everything else is just a variation of these. Android, ChromeOS, PS3 OS, tons of embedded systems like car entertainment systems, and of course all the traditional Linux distros like Ubuntu, Mint, PopOS, Fedora, and so on are Linux. MacOS, iOS, Switch OS, pfSense and tons of embedded systems like routers, and of course all the traditional BSD distros like FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD and so on are BSD based. (Though Switch OS, to be fair, is mostly it's own thing, only borrowing significant portions from BSD.) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago There's pretty much three core OSes out there: Windows Linux BSD Amost everything else is just a variation of these. Android, ChromeOS, PS3 OS, tons of embedded systems like car entertainment systems, and of course all the traditional Linux distros like Ubuntu, Mint, PopOS, Fedora, and so on are Linux. MacOS, iOS, Switch OS, pfSense and tons of embedded systems like routers, and of course all the traditional BSD distros like FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD and so on are BSD based. (Though Switch OS, to be fair, is mostly it's own thing, only borrowing significant portions from BSD.) permalink fedilink source parent