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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Linux back at 4.04% on the Desktop. Windows went below 73% (gs.statcounter.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It peaked at 4.05% in March. The last 2 months it went just below 4% as the Unknown category increased. For June the reverse happened, so 4.04% seems to be the real current share of Linux on Desktop as desktop clients were read properly/werent spoofed.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

not counting systems that use the Linux kernel but aren't considered a traditional GNU+Linux desktop.

Does that mean you don't count Alpine towards Linux market share? It mostly doesn't use any GNU stuff.

You can also compile the kernel with LLVM instead of gcc, use musl instead of glibc, and use BSD coreutils instead of GNU coreutils.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Do they use the BSD userland instead? Interesting...

Perhaps the definition isn't good enough or accurate. What would you call a system that perhaps uses Darwin kernel or Hurd plus GNU user land, or any combo of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Do they use the BSD userland instead? Interesting...

I think Alpine uses Busybox, but it's feasible for a Linux distro to use BSD coreutils. Not sure if any do that, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

not counting systems that use the Linux kernel but aren’t considered a traditional GNU+Linux desktop.
Does that mean you don’t count Alpine towards Linux market share? It mostly doesn’t use any GNU stuff.

not OP, but my guess is that he was referring to android