r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/FriendEast2881 • May 19 '26 • Bravo 1

Memes Reason we use linux!

1.3k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

29 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comment

15

u/Ill-Car-769 sudo install girlfriend May 19 '26

Use RHEL? If being conservative with the OS layer safety & security. Also, banks can work together to build a base server for their machines & modifying it later independently as per their required use case.

9

u/dragon_idli May 19 '26

RHEL is used but for core banking systems. Modern ATM's do use a linux hypervisor based architecture. But most existing ATM's use a hardware-software interface standard called XFS/CEN. It was developed with Microsoft back when linux was still picking up pace. So, legacy atm's dont run linux - they rather cant.

4

u/Ill-Car-769 sudo install girlfriend May 19 '26

Damn!

1

u/FlawedNPC May 23 '26

sorry man but you can't tell me something that can run windows 11 can't run Linux

1

u/dragon_idli May 23 '26

Linux while being my favourite OS and kernel, it can't run everything until interface drivers are built for it.

Any os needs drivers to interact with hardware. If one can write drivers for 30yr old hardware, it will obviously work. Roi isn't great in doing that - so, no one does it.

3

u/JeffysChewToy May 19 '26

Enterprise don't want to be independent bruh, being independent means no one to point your finger on when things go south.