nah, Linus Torvalds wins. I really really doubt that Minix is more deployed than...

_lqaf · on Nov 7, 2017

Reading the actual claim being made helps one respond to the right question:

"MINIX 3 was now probably the most widely used operating system in the world on x86 computers"

(emphasis mine)

pjmlp · on Nov 7, 2017

When Fuchsia gets more mature you can eventually remove Android from that list.

The stable NDK APIs are not Linux specific, ANSI C and C++ libraries are OS agnostic, and as of Android 8 the syscalls are white listed.

josteink · on Nov 7, 2017

> When Fuchsia gets more mature you can eventually remove Android from that list.

And Android can finally throw out its biggest chunk of meaningfully open-source source-code so far (from an end-user/modder perspective).

At that point Android is not going to be meaningfully open any more, and might as well be considered a closed platform on par with iOS.

I wonder how/if that will impact the platforms popularity.

Fnoord · on Nov 7, 2017

Fuchsia is open source [1] [2] though not specifically GPL. It uses a myriad of licenses.

> I wonder how/if that will impact the platforms popularity.

It won't. Vast majority of users don't care about open source, and developers won't have to care. The kernel and userland get replaced, but the underlying Android OS (excluding GApps) remains open source.

[1] https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia

Crespyl · on Nov 7, 2017

With both the kernel and userland being replaced what, exactly, do you consider the Android OS to consist of?

I assume you're referring to the Java based frameworks and Dalvik/ART runtime pieces, but I would usually consider those part of userland, and your comment is a little unclear.

jhasse · on Nov 7, 2017

Let's wait and see.

When that happens Intel might as well have replaced MINIX in the ME.