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Red Hat CEO: Linux Is Now The 'Default Choice' For The Cloud (bizjournals.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the cloudy-with-a-chance-of-Linux dept.

Speaking at the "All Things Open" conference, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst remembered when Linux "was just a 'bunch of geeks' getting together figuring it all out on an 8286 chip" 25 years ago. An anonymous reader quotes BizJournals: "It went from being kind of a hacker movement to truly what I'll say [is] a viable alternative to traditional software," Whitehurst says, adding that Red Hat was a part of that push. Over the years, it came out from under the radar, being what Whitehurst calls "the default choice for a next-generation of infrastructure," particularly when it comes to cloud architectures... He points to Google, Microsoft and Facebook, all having open sourced their machine learning systems. "They recognize the company that builds the community around that piece of technology, that technology is going to win."

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  1. 8286 chip by Spazmania · · Score: 4, Informative

    First off, that's 80286. Missed a zero there.

    Second off, that's wrong. Linux needed an 80386sx as its minimum supported CPU.

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    1. Re:8286 chip by sootman · · Score: 2

      Came here to say this. FROM THE FIRST FREAKING SENTENCE OF ORIGINAL FREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT...

      Hello everybody out there using minix -
      I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

      And near the end...

      It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc)

      Things have changed since then, but 386 was a requirement since literally day one.

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  2. Oh please by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Company head says my company is the leader in current buzzword-hype-technology.

    Is there really nothing going on right now that we use that as "news"?

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  3. Red Hat CEO: "Open is the default choice" by SolemnLord · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slashdot headline: "Linux is the default choice".

    There's... sort of a significant gap between the two.

    1. Re:Red Hat CEO: "Open is the default choice" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I haven't seen a gap that big since goatse.

  4. Re:Only when... by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 2

    Please just feel free to stick with Windows, then.

    Seriously--choice being a thing and all...

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  5. Re: Anti-systemd posts coming by r1348 · · Score: 2

    All 5 of you?