What do we call ourselves?

I always here people say, "I'm a mac." Or I'm a PC," but what do we call ourselves? I heard I'm a UNIX was wrong something about Linux not actually being UNIX. I'm a Linux?

 

Find yourself.

http://www.levenez.com/unix/unix.png

and if you think you're "Linux", it gets deeper.

http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/10.10/gldt1010.png

Have fun.

 

Holy cow... this is amazing.

 

Those are some ridiculous charts. Interesting that a lot of redhat distros fail/close over time and most debian ones are still around today.

You could say I'm a penguin?

 

I don't compare myself to *tards like them.
I am myself I don't feel the need to brand myself like the rest because I have my own value.

 

Indeed.

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I'm a human.

(sometimes)

 

Wow - that was impressive charts! Interesting to see that Slackware (old sentimental favourite of mine) was the ancestor of SuSE. I've tried and used versions of all the big three.

Also, Linux is celebrating 20 years in August this year. Cool! (but boy, do I feel old!)

 

Slackware came from SLS. Patrick actually worked on SLS for a time and didn't like the the way the main developer was going with SLS.

SuSe started with Slackware as a base and incorporated the RPM package manager which made SuSe go its own way.

Only relation that Slack has with SuSe is the solid foundation SuSe decided to build on.

 

Taking this a bit too serious are we?

I guess one could identify as a UNICS then?

 

I see your point. It was more than ten years ago that I used either of them, so it was just interesting to see that there was a relation. I started with RedHat, moved onto SuSE (5.0?) and after that I discovered Slackware.

 

I use Windows because I have no choice due to specialised Applications.

I use Linux because it is made by many humans to share with all humans.
Not Companies, not Branding. For Humans by Humans.

 

yep and windows / apple been made by aliens and demons

 

Don't trust that graph too much. Sure, it can't be accused for not being complete and it's inevitable that it's outdated from time to time, but it also contains actual errors.
For example, Sidux didn't evolve from Debian directly. It was forked from Kanotix when Kanotix switched from its former release model (which was basically like the one that Aptosid still has) to the one it has now.
Backtrack also seems to be misplaced. When it was started it was based on Slackware. For version 4 it switched to Ubuntu, which is still the current situation if I'm informed correctly.

In German I categorize myself as a "Linuxer" or "Debianer" if it should be more specific. No idea how to translate that into proper English. But I don't use these terms like waving flags, it's just shorter than a whole sentence. In RL very few people know which OS I'm using at all. It simply doesn't matter and I'm too lazy to explain that there are other things out there than Windows.

 

I'd say we are upperhumans, but hey, Mac users reserved it for ourselves

 

You need to start evangelizing.

Everyone I associate with in RL is painfully aware of Linux...

 

Homo Sapien has always worked for me.