You can't fool a microbiologist, Linux

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Imagine if mainline linux were a species. Everyone who used it had to upgrade their systems. If they were a procaryote, they'd need to upgrade to a Eukaryote. This is what a version history would look like:

1991 We added a nucleus (MMU). Since 0.01.

1992 64 bit support address space added on DEC Alpha. (Larger genome supported!)

1998 uclinux developed. Loss of function (MMU) + Gain of function (performance/lower latency)  

2007 nommu (uclinux) integrated (Mitochondria!) into 2.5.46

2024 RTLinux merged into mainline- an improvement, but RTOSes also offered in nommu systems.

2028 nommu scheduled for removal: (Procaryotes can be procaryotes again.)

203x 32-bit support removal. Sometime. (Divergent evolution).

More may be added as the ideas arrive to me. 

Halobacteria is a photosynthetic archaea that feeds on salt and light. If photoheterotrophic bacteria can utilize light as an energy source, so can 32-bit and nommu linux machines. 


10-3-2026: 

https://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox/2024-January/008944.html

"NOMMU systems have been analogized to bacteria, fungi, and insects: there are more bacterial cells on the planet than mammal cells by a VERY LARGER MARGIN. But they're mostly invisible to the elephants and dinosaurs of the world. NOMMU systems are EVERYWHERE. Mostly Linux is too big to play in that space, but even a small slice of it is more deployments than everything else Linux does combined (yes including phones)." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Woese#Discovery_of_the_third_domain

Mayr, Ernst (1998). "Two empires or three?". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 95 (17): 9720–9723. Bibcode:1998PNAS...95.9720M. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.17.9720. PMC 33883. PMID 9707542.

Sapp, Jan A. (December 2007). "The structure of microbial evolutionary theory". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 38 (4): 780–95. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2007.09.011. PMID 18053933.


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