Windows was called obsolete (by me) years ago, and it’s abandoned (by me) since mid 2024.
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… and millions of phones 🙃
And your car and likely your fridge too. Linux is everywhere.
I mean, from what we learnt on university the “messiness” of a monolithic kernel seems “wrong” and a microkernel arch seems “better design”. Once you spend a couple of decades in the workforce and opening your mind… I haven’t seen a single “good modular design” that doesn’t suck balls, super bloated and with many performance issues just to make it “pretty”.
So, while I’m not claiming it doesn’t exist… I think is at the very least debatable.
Also, in 1992, when this article came out: you couldn’t just walk into Walmart and get a CD with Debian or Slackware on it (still cant but thats another story). If you wanted the latest reliable word processor, email, hardware drivers and access to excel you basically had no choice but to slap down $100 for a Windows or OSx install. Only enthusiasts, academics and scientists had the bandwidth capacity to download and update an entire OS in 1992. CD burners themselves were $10 000 in 1992.
TBF, in 1992 you might have had a hard time getting slackware at all since it was officially released in 1993.
However, when I first used it around 1997, it was just a stack of floppies, no CD needed.
That’s painful. I had a proper purchased slackware 3.1 CD in 1997.
I tried a two-diskette non-distro from “so much shareware 2”. I think it was minted in 1993 and labelled Linux 0.99b
It powers servers, smartphones, a growing number of personal computers, and at least three gaming consoles (Deck, Machine, Legion Go S), with more coming.
Remember Windows Server? LMAO
Not only Servers… Most of the VR Headsets, many TV’s, most mobile phones, a lot of automation systems, etc.
Linux obsolete before windows 95 , lol
TBH a lot of Posix API stuff are designed around now obsolete hardware limitations, but nothing that can’t be solved with some committee, that will design a new API, by committee.
“…but ‘vector’ is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.” - Lord Kelvin
It’s a old design shoe horned to do modern things. That’s fine but yeah… Obviously something more modern would be nice.
Called “obsolete” by whom? Microsoft?
The image reads Andy Tannenbaum.
Ah, OK, the Tannenbaum discussion. Yes, we had good laughs back then.
No, Microslop called it a “cancer”.
That, too.
Andy Tannembaum. Mi ix is microkernel. Linux is monolithic
I’ve been there with the MINIX debate back then. I’ve actually used MINIX on a job back then. Tannenbaum knows his stuff, but with that, he was completely off. I don’t think that most people in the Linux scene nowadays have ever heard of him or his OS. So much for relevance.
Minix in a sense is more successful than Linux as it runs in every Intel as a backdoor for the NSA.
Not sure if Minix is still used as a teaching OS but I’m the textbook is still likely around.
In practice, I don’t think anyone predicted the market
Turns out 640kb was never enough
