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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by swiftcoder on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @06:08AM (#47321235)
> There are only 4 successful general purpose production OSes

Feel like you are using a very narrow definition of "success" here. Is BSD not successful? It is deployed on 10s of millions of routers/firewalls/etc in addition to being the ancestor of both modern MacOS and PlaystationOS...

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Re:Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a... by eschaton on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @11:28PM (#47331458)
What about IBM i and z/OS, and Stratus VOS, and Burroughs MCP, and Tandem GUARDIAN, and VxWorks and OS-9 and… These all not only still exist but run huge transaction volume (for the mainframe and minicomputer systems) and run a huge amount of embedded systems (for the embedded OSes).
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