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Quotes of the week

flussence — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:24:02 +0000

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

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liw — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:34:42 +0000

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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gregkh — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:11:08 +0000

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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rodgerd — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:27:46 +0000

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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pizza — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:33:27 +0000

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...)