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Netcraft: Red Hat Still Top Linux Server Distro
darthcamaro writes "Looks like Red Hat is still the #1 distro according to Netcraft stats cited by Internetnews.com. Gentoo is now the fastest growing, replaced Debian which was the fastest growing distro just six months ago...and as we all know, and as the article rightly points out, the stats aren't accurate cause most webserver admins disable version reporting...right? So if all version were known, what would be the #1 distro for hosting? Read the Netcraft stats (without the context that they're BS) here"
I'm sure 2004 is the year of Linux on the Desktop!
As a Gentoo user, it's nice to see that they have 1% of Linux's 1%. Sort of the fringe of the fringe.
It's all about the optimilaziations, baby.
Wait, I thought X was the windowing system!? God damn you linux, why must you be so confusing! screw you guys, I'm going back to windows.
In Soviet Russia, a Beowulf cluster of gay *BSD niggers imagines YOU dying!
My point is, in alot of corperate enviroments, they have already deployed there LVS load balancers / Firewalls, and will not be replacing these systems any time soon. I suspect there is a larger leaning towards having older RedHat systems being exposed to the world. The newer systems are likely just pieces of the cluster.
Unforchutely given the tech. market I doubt there is nearly the ratio of NEW cluster deployments as we saw a few years ago.
At my previous employeer we had a large we cluster (using LVS) It consisted of about 220 x PIII 666Mhz Systems (all redhat). Now at my new employeer we do nearly 3 times the volume on 90 x P4 2.4 Ghz Systems.
xoduszero Mike
Gamblers Forum
Excuse me, but just when in the fuck did it become chic to pepper language with inappropriate and meaningless apostrophes? Lately, I've seen apostrophes misused in:
The infamous "it's" instead of "its" (to show possessive, as in "the animal defended its home"-- most people nowadays would write "the animal defended it's (sic) home", which means "the animal defended it is home", which makes no sense)
Plurals ("sunglass'" (sic), "pizza's" (sic), etc.)
At the end of "its" (bizarrely)-- i.e. its' (sic), which is not a word at all and probably never was
...And now, I see you using it as part of a verb. "See's"? WTF up with that? "See is"?
God, am I getting fucking sick of idiocy like this. Why the fuck do I even bother writing proper English any more, when even relatively intelligent people like you mangle the language like cheese through a grater? And if you're from a non-English-speaking nation: I apologize. Actually, you're probably American, since the WORST and MOST BIZARRE manglings of English seem to originate from America, and in fact from people born in America, who have been learning English all their lives. Go figure.
Anyhow, I'm fucking sick of this. Who the fuck started this "when in doubt, throw apostrophes at it" shit?
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
Windows still top desktop distro.
;)
All this proves is that the old maxim "there's no accounting for taste" is truly universal in its applicability.
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
I think you just need a hug mate.
Friends don't let Friends use Internet Explorer.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I think you missed an apostrophe's in there somewhere
Somebody doesn't realize that the "BSD is dying" stuff stopped being funny quite along time ago.
Same applies to the Soviet Russia jokes, the Beowulf cluster jokes, and the GNAA shit.
Hear that? It's time to bring back HOT GRITS and NATALIE PORTMAN!!!
"Who the fuck started this "when in doubt, throw apostrophes at it" shit?"
It dates back to the old testament, Exodus, chapter 8.
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AND the LORD spake unto Moses, Go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with apostrophes:
3 And the river shall bring forth apostrophes abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneadingtroughs:
4 And the apostrophes shall come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.
5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause apostrophes to come up upon the land of Egypt.
6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the apostrophes came up, and covered the land of Egypt.
7 And the magicians did so with their enchantments, and brought up apostrophes upon the land of Egypt.
8 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the LORD, that he may take away the apostrophes from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice unto the LORD.
9 And Moses said unto Pharaoh, Glory over me: when shall I entreat for thee, and for thy servants, and for thy people, to destroy the apostrophes from thee and thy houses, that they may remain in the river only?
10 And he said, To-morrow. And he said, Be it according to thy word: that thou mayest know that there is none like unto the LORD our God.
11 And the apostrophes shall depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.
12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh: and Moses cried unto the LORD because of the apostrophes which he had brought against Pharaoh.
13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses; and the apostrophes died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.
ACLinux has a growth rate of inifinte percent. Installed server are currently at one computer, but with this growth rate ACLinux is certain to take over the Linux server market in a matter of seconds!
I'm sure 2004 is the year of Linux on the Desktop!
Lisa: "A gay Republican president by 2084?"
Gay Republican: "We're realistic."
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Got all that and more in a FC2 install -- half hour.
Runs faster than Gentoo too.
Yeah, it's totally fuck'd up!
'tis strange ain't it?
Move Sig. For great justice.
An OS for EVERYONE? Get real. Some of us need proper, long-supported releases with backports, thankyou. Along with serious QA, testing and support. Gentoo is fine for toying around, but for critical business work it's not an option. Perhaps you should read this...
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Official Gentoo-Linux-Zealot translator-o-matic
Gentoo Linux is an interesting new distribution with some great features. Unfortunately, it has attracted a large number of clueless wannabes and leprotards who absolutely MUST advocate Gentoo at every opportunity. Let's look at the language of these zealots, and find out what it really means...
"Gentoo makes me so much more productive."
"Although I can't use the box at the moment because it's compiling something, as it will be for the next five days, it gives me more time to check out the latest USE flags and potentially unstable optimisation settings."
"Gentoo is more in the spirit of open source!"
"Apart from Hello World in Pascal at school, I've never written a single program in my life or contributed to an open source project, yet staring at endless streams of GCC output whizzing by somehow helps me contribute to international freedom."
"I use Gentoo because it's more like the BSDs."
"Last month I tried to install FreeBSD on a well-supported machine, but the text-based installer scared me off. I've never used a BSD, but the guys on Slashdot say that it's l33t though, so surely I must be for using Gentoo."
"Heh, my system is soooo much faster after installing Gentoo." .debs can be rebuilt with a handful of commands (AND Red Hat
supplies i686 kernel and glibc packages), my box MUST be faster. It's nothing
to do with the fact that I've disabled all startup services and I'm running
BlackBox instead of GNOME or KDE."
"I've spent hours recompiling Fetchmail, X-Chat, gEdit and thousands of other programs which spend 99% of their time waiting for user input. Even though only the kernel and glibc make a significant difference with optimisations, and RPMs and
"...my Gentoo Linux workstation..."
"...my overclocked AMD eMachines box from PC World, and apart from the third-grade made-to-break components and dodgy fan..."
"You Red Hat guys must get sick of dependency hell..." .rpms together on the command line, and that problems
hardly ever occur if one uses proper Red Hat packages instead of mixing
SuSE, Mandrake and Joe's Linux packages together (which the system wasn't
designed for)."
"I'm too stupid to understand that circular dependencies can be resolved by specifying BOTH
"All the other distros are soooo out of date."
"Constantly upgrading to the latest bleeding-edge untested software makes me more productive. Never mind the extensive testing and patching that Debian and Red Hat perform on their packages; I've just emerged the latest GNOME beta snapshot and compiled with -O9 -fomit-instructions, and it only crashes once every few hours."
"Let's face it, Gentoo is the future."
"OK, so no serious business is going to even consider Gentoo in the near future, and even with proper support and QA in place, it'll still eat up far too much of a company's valuable time. But this guy I met on #animepr0n is now using it, so it must be growing!"