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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25, @02:47AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 25, @02:47AM (#1434844)

    Operating Systems as Religious Denominations:

    macOS - Roman Catholicism (UNIX heritage, very pretty, some think it's lost its way)
    FOSS Operating Systems - Protestantism
          Minix: Moravians (they broke off first but nobody remembers them)
          BSD: Lutheranism
              FreeBSD: Mainstream Lutheranism - Still has roots going back to the beginning of UNIX (apostolic succession), but still modern, willing to accept code from everywhere, very liberal license, open minded, some question the quality of code.
              OpenBSD: LCMS - very conservative, must adhere to the gospel, sola scriptura. Don't you dare confuse me with mainstream Linux.
              NetBSD: WELS - I guess they are still around
          Linux: Mainstream Protestantism
              Slackware: Independent Fundamental Baptist. Rejection of the Babylon that is systemd.
              Void Linux: New IFB. Package dependencies woo!
              Arch Linux: Presbyterian (Calvinist) Churches. Going to silently judge you and not help newcomers because they are not the elect.
              Debian: Episcopal Church. Steady and long tradition.
              Devuan: Anglican Church of America. Broke off from the Episcopal church recently due to thinking the Episcopal church lost its way.
              Ubuntu: Methodist Church. Theologically rooted close to Episcopalism.
              Linux Mint: Wesleyan Church. Ubuntu was wrong to endorse snaps, like the Methodist church was wrong to endorse slavery.
              Fedora: Non-denominational megachurches pretending to be small, community churches, but they are actually taking money from the USG and being steered by USG. Probably has a Christian flag and an Israeli flag up at the altar.
              NixOS: They are speaking in tongues over there and trying to win more souls.
              Trisquel / Guix: IDK probably Branch Davidians or something. Scary to everyone and you will listen to their rants and nod your head even though you are pragmatic, mostly out of fear of being shot if you disagree, but nobody is questioning whether they are going to Heaven.

    Android: Mormon Church. Not quite Protestant and a bunch of weird shit added on top, but you like them anyway because hanging out with them beats hanging out with someone else.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by pTamok on Wednesday February 25, @01:27PM

    by pTamok (3042) on Wednesday February 25, @01:27PM (#1434886)

    You missed TempleOS [wikipedia.org]. It's a bit of a legend.

    TempleOS is a 64-bit, non-preemptive multitasking,[5] multi-core, public domain, open source, ring-0-only, single address space, non-networked, PC operating system for recreational programming.[6]

    TempleOS was written in a programming language ... called "HolyC".

    HolyC is the just-in-time compiled language of TempleOS. It is an imperative, statically typed programming language, although it uses some object-oriented programming paradigms.