Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

I am not (yet) in the habit of running rcutorture on my smartphone.

80% of the world runs Debian or kernel.org kernels.

— Greg Kroah-Hartman at Open Source Summit EU 2019

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Posted Oct 31, 2019 0:33 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (1 responses)

I have a hard time believing that there are 10 billion Linux systems out there.

(Because two years ago there were over two billion active Android devices, and those are emphatically *not* using kernel.org or Debian kernels...)

Context for GregKH's quote?

Posted Oct 31, 2019 3:27 UTC (Thu) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link]

Yeah, it smells like nonsense. Amazon Linux is off-brand CentOS. RHEL/CentOS are not kernel.org. Debian isn't either for that matter. Neither is Ubuntu.

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Posted Oct 31, 2019 7:11 UTC (Thu) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link] (2 responses)

I was not counting embedded or Android in that statistic, only "servers/desktops", sorry for any confusion.

Given that we know there are 2.5 billion Android devices out there, 80% running Debian/kernel.org really would be a lot :)

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Posted Oct 31, 2019 11:34 UTC (Thu) by liw (subscriber, #6379) [Link]

If you'd told me in 1991 that my sprintf would be running on billions of machines some day, I would've written it better, instead of just trying to teach someone C, stdartgs, and how printf could be implemented. Oh well.

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Posted Nov 1, 2019 4:24 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

There's probably a few billion devices running MontaVista linux and the like (and still online, unfortunately)...