The various flavors of "Linux" are branded with various names such as Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, etc. They start with essentially the same code base and do value add. You generally won't hear the term "Linux" as a specific brand. The same thing applies/applied to Unix operating systems; you will hear/heard of various branded names such as AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, UNICOS, MacOS, etc. They are all "Unix" operating systems and they all started with a similar code base. "
Linux" is not a brand name such as "Windows". A "Linux" system is widely available: buy a Mac. The brand name "MacOS" has widespread name recognition. The code basis is different than the Linux code base but the user commands (awk is still awk and grep is still grep) are the same and how processes are handled (the kernel) is essentially the same. The GUI layered on top is, of course, different.
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Originally Posted by fw102807
Yes that was my assertion. To me mainstream means Linux would have the same name recognition as Windows and would be as widely available.
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