Linux: Will It Sweep All Before It?
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Posted on by August 30, 2011

Linux at 20: New challenges, new opportunities | Open Source Software – InfoWorld

The rise of cloud computing and mobility could elevate the open source OS to a level of unprecedented dominance

An interesting, if lengthy, analysis of the current state of the OS I love to hate.

Posted in Linux, Technology permalink

About Bill Quick

I am a small-l libertarian. My primary concern is to increase individual liberty as much as possible in the face of statist efforts to restrict it from both the right and the left. If I had to sum up my beliefs as concisely as possible, I would say, "Stay out of my wallet and my bedroom," "your liberty stops at my nose," and "don't tread on me." I will believe that things are taking a turn for the better in America when married gays are able to, and do, maintain large arsenals of automatic weapons, and tax collectors are, and do, not.

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Linux: Will It Sweep All Before It? — 4 Comments

  1. Linux is a joy; the article missed or ignored the underlying hacker culture that birthed it.

    The hacker culture is the bit-based gift-culture that rms codified with his GPL. esr, later did something (you gotta ask him, he–like you, Bill–thinks differently than me*) that moved the GPL into the mainstream by re-branding(?) it as Open Source Software.

    Because of rms, Linus had the space to create Linux and because of esr, I am responding to your post on a computer running Slackware 13.1 and other free software.

  3. Linux is a joy

    There’s Linux, the kernel of Linus Torvalds fame

    There’s “Linux”, the OS AKA GNU/Linux, the GNU OS with the Linux kernel.

    There’s “Linux”, the distribution, e.g. Ubuntu, Slackware, etc. ad infinitum.

    There are Linux kernel based OSs, e.g., Android and a multitude of embedded systems, e.g., Tivo, Kindle, etc. ad infinitum.

    So, I agree, Linux is a joy. I’m just not sure what you, or anyone else, means by “Linux”.