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Are there any non-unixlike Linux-based OSes ~~other than Android~~? (self.linux)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by amon to c/[email protected]

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To clear it up I am referring to just the kernel. You can set anything you'd like as PID 1 so we can have a non-unixlike userland. For example, some users set their kernel to boot directly into Emacs, without an init system.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My LG TV runs Linux. And I'm pretty sure I had the GPL in some other home appliances as well. You'd also find the Linux kernel running in a lot of other embedded devices as well. Roombas... Sometimes they boot straight to custom software. TomTom GPS devices do (or did) that AFAIK. Other car entertainment devices as well. And I think there is some design pattern in which you run your microservices without a full Linux in the container on a server.