Ubuntu more popular than a Mac?

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 15:12 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Federico Voges wrote:
> > Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> >> I don't recall if this has stirred the SxS pot yet, but since there's
> >> complaints about a quiet list:
> >>
> >> 	http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3823&tag=nl.e539
> >>
> > As more than one already said in this list: that doesn't mean anything.
> > At work, we have over 2000 servers running FC3, FC4 and RHES4. None of
> > those are probably counted in those "reports". And I guess the same
> > happens with many companies running Linux in their server farms.
> >
> > Probably the most popular linux would be redhat/FC, debian and SuSE.
> > Which one is the most popular? Who knows :)
> 
> Indeed.  Google is running a modified RHEL4 on the majority of their 
> search farm systems (and we're talking about thousands).  Anyone claiming 
> any distro usage statistics from a poll is either lying or has no clue 
> what they're talking about.

It was in 1999 when Bob Young sent out a company wide memo to use this
new startup called "Google" as the Red Hat company wide search engine.
The man was a Prophet. <smiles> Ric



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