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Linus's Baby Comes of Age
just_another_sean writes "Torvalds' Baby Comes of Age - BusinessWeek Online is running a story on how Linux has matured over the years. They have some positive things to say about it, and back up their statements with some examples and stats." From the article: "Hardware companies are selling more than $1 billion in servers to run Linux every quarter, while sales of servers running proprietary software continue to fall. And now, slowly but surely, Linux is making inroads on the desktop as well. According to IBM, 10 million desktops ran Linux in 2004 -- a 40% jump from a year ago. That progress has been an important foot in the door for all open-source companies. Marc Fleury, chief executive of open-source middleware company JBoss, describes the Linux operating system pioneered by Torvalds as the older brother who fought the tough battles and was able to get the curfew extended and the keys to the car, so that life was a lot easier for the rest of the open-source world. "
You'd better watch your comments. I hear the mother, Mrs. Torvalds, is a karate master.
He runs on a PPC so that narrows it down a bit. Between Gentoo, Ubuntu, Yellowdog and Mandriva, I'd guess Gentoo.
but...so what?
I'm running large data warehouses on db2 on aix. I could run this on linux (power5 hardware supports linux, so does db2).
But why the hurry? In the meanwhile, the upfront cost is the same, aix has a lower tco (fewer patches to install, more reliable, etc). The hardware cost for power5 isn't that much more than for intel (when you're talking about seriously fast hardware). All the same apps and utilities run on aix (python, gnu stuff, etc).
Aren't you in the same spot? Why rush large oracle 12-way servers to linux? It'll happen eventually.
If I'm not mistaken, you have been able to burn using IDE since kernel 2.6