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by zozbot234
1837 days ago
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> I think Linux will always be behind commercial/proprietary platforms. One could arguably say that the iphone is a multi-billion dollar platform One could have expected the same wrt. proprietary *NIX workstation and server hardware in the 1980s and 1990s, and where are those today? Linux is dominating that market. Embedded brings more trouble because the hardware, far from being a "multi billion dollar" endeavor, is all-too-often entirely undocumented and sloppily hacked together, where a barely workable state is considered "good enough" for shipping. But even there, Linux is easily gaining ground over proprietary OS's. The underlying dynamic is clear enough. |
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Server hardware is of course commodity and dominated by Linux.
The high end workstation proprietary workstation market seems pretty alive and dominated but a closed Unix still.
> Embedded brings more trouble because the hardware, far from being a "multi billion dollar" endeavor, is all-too-often entirely undocumented and sloppily hacked together, where a barely workable state is considered "good enough" for shipping. But even there, Linux is easily gaining ground over proprietary OS's.
This is true of ‘embedded’ but phones are not embedded.
> The underlying dynamic is clear enough.
I think this is wishful thinking. Embedded and servers are quite different from phones and workstations.