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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).
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"Operating systems by current version" Mac OS: 14 Windows: 11 Linux: 6
I use Mint 21. Checkmate.
Nixos is at 23.11 :) Also, rolling releases are kinda fun: the latest commit so far is 46ae0210ce163b3cba6c7da08840c1d63de9c701 which roughly translates to nixos-unstable 403509863565239228514588166489915404446713104129 :D
Laughs in Fedora 39
You could take the revision number. nixos-unstable has 567011 commits currently.
Fedora 39
I mean current version really doesn't mean anything because people aren't going to upgrade if the version they're using is fine. I submit that this is a perfect example of correlation != causation. I may have gotten the order wrong on the not equal symbology since I haven't used it in a while.
Also, are we talking Linux kernal versions? There are so many problems with this comparison.
non ironically, firefox did a jump in version numbers after firefox 4 because people were seeing the low number compared to other browsers, and would think they were behind technically.
My phone is on 23. Nextcloud is on 27.
I'm Arch and so is my wife (actually) and it doesn't have a version. We just roll ... and today my dongled, wireless mouse has stopped moving. The buttons still work and my laptop touchpad works fine.
wtf!
The Linux Kernel version is at 6 point something, I think they're working on version 7. That's not the OS though, the current Ubuntu version under LTS is 22.04. That's more than twice as much as Windows.
Note I had to get this information from Wikipedia because Ubuntu's website is currently unusable corporate garbagepuke.
My version is 20240107. Apple has some catching up to do.
This is why Bioshock Infinite is the best game ever made.
This, but unironically used as a marketing trick:
There was no v1 of Oracle Database, as co-founder Larry Ellison "knew no one would want to buy version 1"
That's why the first Oracle database is v2.
Seriously?!?
No, this is clearly a joke.