2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop

Re:2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop by jacquesm on Sunday December 25, 2022 @03:58PM (#34131161)

Unix has been absolutely dominant on mobile for years now.

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Re:2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop by pjmlp on Sunday December 25, 2022 @04:10PM (#34131298)

Try to write a pure POSIX applications on either iOS or Android.

https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/fall2016/atlidakis

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Re:2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop by jacquesm on Sunday December 25, 2022 @04:39PM (#34131644)

That's not the same thing though, is it? Even desktop Linux is not technically POSIX compliant.

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Re:2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop by tmpburning on Sunday December 25, 2022 @05:21PM (#34132090)

But Android and iOS are complete nightmares in this regard.

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Re:2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop by jacquesm on Sunday December 25, 2022 @07:51PM (#34133311)

I believe that. Imagine the power of having a Unix box in your pocket whereever you go.

It's a pity the Ubuntu phone went nowhere. There is Ubuntu Touch though (haven't used it).

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Re:2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop by pjmlp on Monday December 26, 2022 @03:54AM (#34135942)

A box programmed in Objective-C, Swift, Java, Kotlin, ISO C, ISO C++, plus OS specific APIs, with hardly anything that shows up on UNIX architecture books.

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Re:2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop by pjmlp on Monday December 26, 2022 @03:52AM (#34135928)

It is because without it there is no UNIX.

So I rephrase, try to write a iOS or Android app using UNIX only APIs.

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