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“Linux never succeeded” is such a funny take when it’s quietly running most servers, phones (Android), and a ton of embedded stuff. The real Linux rule is: if it works, nobody notices 😄
The microcontroller probably runs Zephyr, not Linux. It’s fine, Zephyr is also sponsored by Linux Foundation.
> “Linux never succeeded.”
> Almost all Supercomputers run Linux.
> Most Web Servers Run Linux
> Is the basis for Android
lol wat
Also:
At this rate steam on linux will hit like 10% in a few years.
The general desktop marketshare of linux is slightly higher than the steam. Its at like 4.5% already
One other factor that also influences Linux’ market share is that a lot of people just don’t use PCs anymore and rely only on smartphones. I assume that Linux users are less likely to stop using PCs completely than Windows Users are (or rather, that people who don’t even get into PCs would have been less likely to become Linux users if they did)
So it’s not just direct conversion from Windows to Linux, but also a higher retention of users somewhat.
Exactly. People are talking about jumping ship from Windows to Linux after the recent update while regular people have moved to phones 10 years ago
Sorry, Windows still dominates the computer OS market.
Except for computers that are small, computers that are large, computers that are very fast, computers that are resource-limited, computers most used by normal people (mobile) and computers most used by enterprises (server VMs).But desktop computers that are used to launch MS Office or games, boy does Microsoft still dominate that market.
You had me triggered in the first sentence but I came around, haha
I am reminded of that one time we went to lunch with one of our scrum masters and he actually said “why does linux even still exist anymore”.
I didn’t even get into all of that i just told him i switched my home pc to linux a few months ago lol
scrum master
Remind me to kill myself if anyone ever gives me this as an official title
more like cum master, amarite??
i am so sorry. please forgive me ;w;that’s a much better title, I’d wear that with pride. don’t belittle cum by comparing it to that garbage.
Most corporate servers in general run Linux, let alone webservers. Intel literally used Minix without attribution in their Intel Management Engine, so technically every Intel chipset motherboard with an IME runs Linux. That’s basically every Intel motherboard since 2008.
Minix is a different (older) kernel from Linux: https://www.minix3.org/
Not even the more expensive microcontrollers run Linux.
The kind of thing you would see in such a simple device like a dildo are the cheaper smaller ones with RAM sizes and Flash Memory sizes in the KB range and costs less that $1 in bulk.
Mind you, you can squeeze a Linux kernel into a really small amount of memory, but why for a production device pay more for a larger than needed microcontroller and then use most of its storage for a Linux kernel leaving little space for the actual functional code when you don’t need support for things like filesystems or networking?
Microcontrollers are a whole different world from microprocessors.
The cheapest thing you could still run linux on would probably be an Allwinner F1C100s, you can get those in bulk for about 2 £
Allwinner F1C100s
That’s pretty interesting. I wasn’t aware of those.
That said, Allwinner call in an application processor, so it’s a microprocessor not a microcontroller - 32MB RAM is quite a bit above even higher-end microcontrollers (which generally are more like 8MB Flash and a lot less than that RAM).
Looking at the specs you could do like a mini Linux phone with one (resolution 1280x720 😀), though 32MB RAM isn’t enough for X-Windows.
True that one is indeed a bit overkill compared to MCUs, but I’ve worked with it extensively and it I indeed able to be used bare metal through xboot/awboot. It’s larger cousins like the v851s and T113-S3 aren’t as easy though.
