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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).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6
Browsers compared themselves with this metric for a while, but they had to stop before they reached an integer overflow.
Use gnome then
Wow.! A graph and everything.
Windows 2000 enters the room
linux doesn't have a panther checkmate
FACTS don't care about your feelings! Study reveals Macos is 2 1/3 times better than Linux, massive 27% improvement over Windows!
Pfff my systemd is version 255.2-2, I am lightyears ahead.
Fedora 39
Manjaro 23
Ubuntu 23
Linux Mint 21
Debian 12
But number must go up!
Lunix sucks so much that it got stuck into the version 2 for years.
Gnome goes brr
Mac OS is actually at version 23 (they restarted the count at 10).
technically, Darwin, the microkernel, is at 23.2.0, but it was based on the Mach microkernel from NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP (which is part of why it stared at 10)
the latest release of macOS is 14.2.1
I wasn't trying to get into the weeds about actual kernel version numbers; I was just saying they made classic Mac OS from versions 1-9 and OS X from versions 1-14, and 9 + 14 = 23.
You people be bringing Linux distro versions, which are indeed double digits, but the graph really be showing the Linux kernel version, not the distros. And Linux kernel version is indeed 6.7 at the time of writing this