If you know anything about Linux’s history, you’ll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” We know that the “hobby” operating system today is Linux, and except for PCs and Macs, it pretty much runs the world.
Did you ever wonder, though, how it went from being one person’s project to being a group effort? I knew most of the story because I’d been using Linux since 1993. But I thought I’d ask Linus, and some of the early Linux developers.
Pet peeve of mine, what do you call a computer that runs Linux I’m pretty sure its also a PC. Windows shouldn’t have a monopoly of that term.
Thank apple for this bullshit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_a_Mac
there’s also the fact that for a fair number of years, macs were also PCs
Never mind the fact that you can also run Linux on a Mac…I agree with this pet peeve
Does a Mac turn into a PC when using Linux on it? Thats at least how it would work with my definition of PC, which is “personal” meaning that you control it fully. But I never thought that deep about it really.
With your definition of PC, “which is ‘personal’ meaning that you control it fully” I wouldn’t consider a computer running Windows to be a PC.
@freeman @Scoopta Yes it does.
Yes that was poorly worded. Replace “except for” with “besides” and it’s fine.