40 Years of Unix

Re:40 Years of Unix by riffic on Thursday August 20, 2009 @12:18PM (#775365)

I'd say most Linux machines in the wild are running on consumer devices.

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Re:40 Years of Unix by calcnerd256 on Thursday August 20, 2009 @12:21PM (#775372)

Both can be true simultaneously. My server is running on a consumer device.

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Re:40 Years of Unix by calcnerd256 on Thursday August 20, 2009 @01:49PM (#775632)

Scratch that. I just realized that he wasn't referring to desktop computers when he said consumer devices. I now think he meant set-top boxes and things of that nature.

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Re:40 Years of Unix by riffic on Thursday August 20, 2009 @10:43PM (#776887)

Bingo, the tivo's and tomtom's of the world. and if you go by generic unix-style systems, you can throw in iphones and ipod touches to that list too.

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Re:40 Years of Unix by riffic on Friday August 21, 2009 @05:14AM (#777235)

tivos and tomtoms rather.

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Re:40 Years of Unix by ohlol on Thursday August 20, 2009 @12:29PM (#775387)

Yeah really. I have a few thousand "consumer devices" running both Linux and actual UNIX.

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Re:40 Years of Unix by calcnerd256 on Thursday August 20, 2009 @01:49PM (#775636)

A few thousand? Of what nature are these?

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