40 years of Unix (BBC) [LWN.net]

40 years of Unix (BBC)

Posted Aug 20, 2009 23:39 UTC (Thu) by adavid (guest, #42044)
Parent article: 40 years of Unix (BBC)

Good article except for the phrase "the Linux desktop OS". Better phrased as "the ubiquitous Linux OS".

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Posted Aug 21, 2009 12:44 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Yeah. "Linux kernel" is even worse.

But what do you propose? Saying "Linux" is ambiguous, saying "Linux-based OS" is clumsy.

Posted Aug 22, 2009 2:04 UTC (Sat) by adavid (guest, #42044) [Link]

I was blanching at the "desktop" moniker. The ubiquity of Linux on diverse devices, servers and desktops makes the term misleading.