What are you basing this off of? The alternate histories stock market history?
I promise you if Linux wasn’t invented we would have made another niche product or adapted what we have lol, the world doesn’t revolve around Linux
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hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 days agoYeah, I know that. It would probably be BSD though. Doesn’t change what I said though. They’d be ignorant of whatever else it was. It definitely wouldn’t be Windows though. Proprietary systems would never work for things like server farms that have 500,000 servers.
StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I’m basing off of the fact that Microsoft doesn’t even use Windows for their server fleets. Windows makes a terrible server.
strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
IIRC, one of the main reasons Linux is so dominant for server-usage is because it was released before BSD. If Linux had never been made, BSD would very likely have taken its place. If BSD wasn’t made either? Some other Unix-like. Maybe Solaris or Mac. If Unix was never invented, then maybe Windows would take its place.
angband@lemmy.world 2 days ago
BSD was released as a standalone kernel over ten years before linux.
strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
I lookes it up, and the quote I was thinking of was this:
“If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened.”
So yeah, sorry about getting the timing of things wrong, and thank you for correcting me.
I do still think however, that if not for Linux, it would be BSD running most servers and such.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
BlueScreenofDeath is an operating system? how long was i high for?