• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Linux nowadays is the toyish easy case, but it comes with a screwdriver to open it and have as much complicated system as you want.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    1 month ago

    On WAN show last week, Luke mentioned he’s daily’ing Linux on his work laptop. In the past, he has used Mint because “it just works” but always had problems so he would give up.

    He expected to try Mint again, but decided to go nuclear and try Arch. For him, Arch just worked.

    Just goes to show that different distros can mean different things to different people.

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      1 month ago

      More likely running Wind River’s VxWorks. Which, as far as I know is the big dog in the RTOS space. The OS being deterministic is super important in safety critical applications like flight computers and cars. Wind River does have a linux distro, but I don’t think VxWorks is. Although, they’ve kind of got caught being complacent and others are moving into the space like Red Hat In Vehicle Operating System.

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        For a few brief beautiful moments, I assumed you were talking about the firmware running on the Fisher Price toy.

        As your answer included more details, my understanding became a delightful confusion and then realization.