Reply to post: Re: @karlkarl - Linux is not an OS

30 years of Linux: OS was successful because of how it was licensed, says Red Hat

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Re: @karlkarl - Linux is not an OS

What would be the reason of GNU/Linux being so popular ?

Probably marketing and hardware support. The BSDs really didn';t have RH and other commercial support/distributions. And so Linux grew in popularity because you could buy it at the local computer outlet, and it (mostly) supported YOUR hardware. That kind of thing.

Sometimes that's all it takes.

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