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bityard 59 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Securing Services with Rootless Containers

Nits: It's a Unix convention (not just Linux), and Unix traditionally ran on minicomputers (not mainframes). Mainframes had their own specialized OSes, although some could run Unix in a partition or virtual machine.

nine_k 59 days ago [–]

I think that "Linux ran on mainframes" was said in jest. Even though Linux runs on mainframes pretty well even now.

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