I say android is the most common linux(not just server or desktop), but that's a pretty wild guess. On Jun 3, 2011 11:32 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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Today's Topics:
- Re: most commonly used Linux version? (Jim Herrmann)
- RE: most commonly used Linux version? (Haworth, Michael A.)
- Re: most commonly used Linux version? (Andrew Scott Beals)
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 07:02:00 -0500 From: Jim Herrmann [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: most commonly used Linux version? Message-ID: [email protected] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Joe, Since you were asking about desktop Linux, and the system administrators
on
the list veered off into server land, let me bring this conversation back
to
your original question. You said you wanted to install a desktop and
wanted
the most commonly used Linux version. If you look at the vendors that are selling retail desktops, to consumers, they are using Ubuntu. If you are looking for the more common business desktop, then use Windows, because businesses don't install Linux on their desktops, well damn few anyway. Only smaller, smarter companies, do that. The big boys are all stuck with Windows XP because it's too damn hard to change out 10,000 desktops of people who need a three day class just to learn how to run M$-Word. I'm sure that some companies, more in Europe no doubt, are switching to Red
Hat
and SuSE desktops, but if you want the most commonly used *consumer* desktop, download Ubuntu here: http://www.ubuntu.com/
I hope that actually answers your question and tip toes around the holy
war
that still rages within the Linux community. ;-)
HTH, Jim
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Joe Cho [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I would like to install a Linux to my desktop. Could you advise a most commonly used Linux version? for example: Redhat, Debian, etc.
and where can I download?
Thanks in advance.
-Joe
-- Joe Cho [email protected]
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Android is widely deployed. But as wide as busybox?
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:34, Richard Allen [email protected] wrote:
I say android is the most common linux(not just server or desktop), but that's a pretty wild guess.
Ubuntu is widely deployed. But as wide as Apache?
Android is a Linux distro. Busybox is a program used by many "small" distros to save on disk space by combining many commands into a single binary, which will then perform the task appropriate to the name under which it is invoked. For distros that operate out of ramdisks, busybox may be stored on the bootable media as "ln", which can then be used in init scripts to link it to the other names by which it will be called.
http://www.busybox.net/FAQ.html#build_system
Busybox is a package that replaces a dozen standard packages, but it is not by itself a complete bootable system.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Billy Crook [email protected] wrote:
Android is widely deployed. But as wide as busybox?
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:34, Richard Allen [email protected] wrote:
I say android is the most common linux(not just server or desktop), but that's a pretty wild guess.
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Monty J. Harder [email protected] wrote:
Ubuntu is widely deployed. But as wide as Apache?
Android is a Linux distro. Busybox is a program used by many "small" distros to save on disk space by combining many commands into a single binary, which will then perform the task appropriate to the name under which it is invoked. For distros that operate out of ramdisks, busybox may be stored on the bootable media as "ln", which can then be used in init scripts to link it to the other names by which it will be called.
http://www.busybox.net/FAQ.html#build_system
Busybox is a package that replaces a dozen standard packages, but it is not by itself a complete bootable system.
I think the wider point is that a Linux kernel + busybox is perhaps more widely deployed than Android. Is it a distribution? No. But it's a "Linux operating system environment."
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