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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6
This is why Bioshock Infinite is the best game ever made.
Shoud we tell her/him/... about Gnome 45?
Windows 95
Windows 2000
Just use 'them' like a normal person
The Linux Kernel version is at 6 point something, I think they're working on version 7. That's not the OS though, the current Ubuntu version under LTS is 22.04. That's more than twice as much as Windows.
Note I had to get this information from Wikipedia because Ubuntu's website is currently unusable corporate garbagepuke.
Fedora 39
Manjaro 23
Ubuntu 23
Linux Mint 21
Debian 12
I raise to you the current version of openSUSE Tumbleweed: 20240108! I think we've got the winner...
My phone is on 23. Nextcloud is on 27.
I'm Arch and so is my wife (actually) and it doesn't have a version. We just roll ... and today my dongled, wireless mouse has stopped moving. The buttons still work and my laptop touchpad works fine.
wtf!
They make a pill for that...
Smh my head
It's also a reflection of how much money you will be spending on each ecosystem
Aren't there meme communities where you could put this instead?
non ironically, firefox did a jump in version numbers after firefox 4 because people were seeing the low number compared to other browsers, and would think they were behind technically.
While true & I remember folks actually using this in arguments for ‘slow development’, there is some merit to versioning differently for something expected to get minor updates to perpetually follow latest specs such. I can’t imagine trying to discern what a “breaking change” would be in this context. Or would you make a new version for every visual redesign? Dates might have just made more sense, but maybe ESR is easier to follow with the current scheme.
One of those bigger numbers is better herd instincts
freebsd is 14 something too
This has got to be satire, right? You posted this ironically. I don’t believe for a moment anyone could be this dense on accident.
Yes. It's a joke. It's pretty funny, IMO. I'm not sure how you could interpret it as anything else. The wording alone makes it pretty obvious.
but wouldnt lower numbers mean no one needed to fix & revamp a working OS?
higher numbers mean more fuckups than needed to be fixed until it was so broken there was no longer a way to code you way out, had to start right from the start!
no it just means the OS is abandoned obviously, don't you know that any library with no commits in the last 20 minutes is not worth using /s
It really depends on what versioning means for the project. If we are talking about semantic versioning then a lower number only means there haven't been many breaking changes over time. Or that a lot of broken stuff has been kept that way because it would break compatibility.
Wait until they discover that Windows Server 2022 exists. Also, Windows 2000.
I use HAL 9000. Get up on my level.
I remain unimpressed.
Meanwhile, ChromeOS 120 is off the scale
That's nothing! Darwin is on version 23.
Are we sure this isn't satire?
…no? It obviously is
If people really get triggered by this bullshit graph, let's add Arch Linux which is on what? >200? >300?
Wow.! A graph and everything.
Lowest version number, lowest need for radical change to keep up to date. Golf rules. Linux wins. Somebody get Tux a green jacket.
linux doesn't have a panther checkmate
FACTS don't care about your feelings! Study reveals Macos is 2 1/3 times better than Linux, massive 27% improvement over Windows!
