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Fossil versus Git 6 months ago

If you only knew how much SQLite is used...

* Apple Mail ( "~/Library/Mail/V5/MailData/Envelope Index" )

* Legacy database in Android

* Firefox, Thunderbird

* Google Chrome, Edge

It is quick, simple, reliable and have enough performance for it's use case. Instead of using text files or develop own database formats.

This is busybox, not the general linux distros.

busybox in Alpine Linux has for example `ps` builtin. If you install ps with `apk add ps` to get the full version, it will remove the symlink for /bin/ps and replace it with the one you installed.

You need to read up on the purpose of busybox. It is not something that the kernel people has decided upon. It is an initiative of an group of people who needed some tools onto a single floppy.

/bin/ps on a Debian distro is 154522 bytes. The whole busybox in Alpine Linux is 804616 bytes and contains a whole lot more than just ps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox https://busybox.net/

It was owned by a UK company called Firefox. They actually linked to both Mozilla and Get Firefox for many years as a landing page.

When the company shut down, the owner owned it and redirected it to getfirefox.com instead of making a profit from it.

To provide changes upstream, the maintainer must accept the change. Most opensource licenses are that you are required to publish your changes. But not upstream. As you wrote, there is no license that forces any "pull requests".

The MIT license is the "easiest" license because there are no responsibility for the maintainer..

Most common are that multiple gambling sites are own by one company. So if the company sponsors, you can put multiple brands on (and for SEO purposes).

Not many.

At my previous company they had two servers with dual Itanium CPUs. One CPU failed and they bought a spare used one from Germany.

We were informed that there was about 10 CPUs left for spare in the world by our provider.

The company decommisioned the servers in 2019 so now there are probably four more :p

But since it is a failed architecure, there can't be that many production systems ( < 1000 )

With that logic, Why not count BSD as one? Linux is the kernel, but Debian has Gnu/HURD also.

Linux in that list is flavour, but that is also the same with BSD. BSD is the flavour and Free, Net, Open all come from BSD 4.3. And if we really want to push it, it also includes MacOS 10.

https://i.imgur.com/RgkVBgR.png

You can't take a binary running in Alpine and run it in Debian. Even if it is statically linked.

But you can ( with some effort ) make it run in ChromeOS.

It is not correct. He is counting ChromeOS as its own but in fact ChromeOS is Linux. Then he should count RHEL, Ubuntu, Lubuntu and so on also.