What were the 'popular' distros at the time of the magazine?
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Memory unlocked! Those blue zip drives were awesome! So much free space to put your rubbish on to. And the 'disks' had those funky grey hexagon pellets inside which mesmerised me!
I’ve heard people say things along the lines of “the Linux revolution never happened”.
Utterly false. Linux is, by a huuuuuuge margin, the most popular OS kernel in the world. It’s the most popular kernel for mobile phones. It’s the most popular kernel for servers. It’s the most popular kernel for SBCs. It may be the most popular kernel for embedded applications, but it’s hard to know that. The only place it’s not the most popular kernel is desktops/laptops.
It's the most popular OS for toilets. And toasters. And fridges. And those display boards above drinks dispensers in supermarkets.
I would argue TRON OS and its variants are in more devices on the planet than Linux is.
Maybe, but it’s hard to know that. Something running in the firmware of a chip in an embedded device is harder to identify than something powering the whole device. There’s also no reliable, publicly available statistics on embedded OSes I could find. So yeah, Linux might not be the most common kernel for embedded systems.
cover story was "this is the year of the linux desktop"