'We' ? I work in supercomputing. Every significant supercomputer runs Linux.
On Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:06 PM Matthew Smith via GLLUG < [email protected]> wrote: > On 13 Aug 2024, at 16:36, Martin A. Brooks via GLLUG < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 2024-08-13 15:50, Polarian via GLLUG wrote: > >> I have been looking through the archives and have seen that there has > >> been only a few posts to the list in the past year. > > > > Most LUGs are dying, if not already dead. Why? Very simple: we won. > > > > Linux went from a hobbyist OS used by geeks and weirdos to global > ubiquity. The geeks and weirdos are still the same, though. > > We didn’t win in the sense we were hoping to though, did we? Linux won on > mobile (Android), but the “great hope” for open-source mobile (Meego) > flopped after one high-profile device that wasn’t even released in the UK. > Windows’s market share has dipped considerably, but not in favour of > open-source desktops but of even more restrictive tablets. The Mac has been > quite successful using a Unix-based OS with some of the same technologies > as Linux, but it’s got even more locked-down over the years. > > Matt > -- > GLLUG mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug >
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