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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).

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How would Linux have been today if locked bootloaders were as common in the 90s as they are now on ARM devices? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

BSDs mostly, Mac wasn't a Unix based system at the time. It also didn't run on x86.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@wildbus8979 @Mwa MacOS was Unix based after Steve Jobs created the Mach/Unix/Mac Finder stack for use on the Next computer, as soon as he returned to Apple, it was adopted there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I know. At the time of the ACPI debacle, Mac OS X didn't exist yet, and NeXT was essentially irrelevant because a) it didn't run x86 and b) it only ran on proprietary hardware.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

@wildbus8979 Actually, because it used a Mach microkernel, it could easily be ported to ANY hardware, that is the whole entire point of Mach. Also it did run on the Mc680x0 family and that was what Mac was based upon at the time, prior to Power PC chips, prior to Intel, prior to M chips, and it is precisely that Mach microkernel that enabled the easy transition from one hardware platform to the next.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes but that's completely irrelevant to the original point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

@wildbus8979 No but completely relevant to your comment. Such is the nature of conversational threads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Ohh