Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoOperating System Political Compass - Updated versionmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square96fedilinkarrow-up1325arrow-down139
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minus-squaremlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoFreeBSD is actually pretty mainstream because everyone who doesn’t want to follow GPL or any copy left licenses tends to use it. Which usually ends up being large companies like Netflix, Sony, or Nintendo.
minus-squareAatube@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 hours agois it really still the same system if it’s a radically divergent userland? (see: android as a linux distribution)
minus-squaremlg@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoFor the consumer tech yeah that makes sense, but I actually meant for infrastructure and workstations where you would otherwise be using linux.
FreeBSD is actually pretty mainstream because everyone who doesn’t want to follow GPL or any copy left licenses tends to use it.
Which usually ends up being large companies like Netflix, Sony, or Nintendo.
is it really still the same system if it’s a radically divergent userland? (see: android as a linux distribution)
For the consumer tech yeah that makes sense, but I actually meant for infrastructure and workstations where you would otherwise be using linux.