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German Alta Vista Servers on Red Hat

Posted by sengan on from the linux-for-critical-tasks dept.

Fionn tells us that German computer magazine c't is reporting that Altavista's German Server (in Germany) runs Red Hat Linux instead of Digital Unix as the US front-end server does. Netcraft confirms the story.

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  1. Queso confirms this too by palpatine · · Score: 1

    $ /sbin/queso beta.altavista.de
    194.112.94.251:80 * Linux 2.0.35 to 2.0.9999 :)

    That should tell you all. It's great to see Linux used in a server you'd expect to run some other operating system. Maybe they should upgrade to Linux 2.2 sometime :-)

    Kudos to Altavista's German server!

  2. Computer runs Linux; story at 11 by C.Lee · · Score: 1

    Can you say sour grapes from the Microsoft supporters? Sure you can. Remember how these guys were boasting that how linux would never really amount to anything less than a year ago?

  3. Too good to be true. :) by Robert+Bowles · · Score: 1

    If the world's fastest seach engine is running on the fastest processor under Linux, the point may be subtle, but it is indeed a triumph. This would prove Compaq's commitment to AlphaLinux.

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  4. d00d.. by arielb · · Score: 1

    heh look at this one
    All Free XXX Videos -- Adult Entertainment - More than 100 free streaming video clips.

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  5. altavista? who cares by arielb · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows Yahoo is the number one search engine and I don't care what OS it uses.

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  6. Nope ... by Steve+Bergman · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what are some situations in which FreeBSD is a better choice than Linux? I have a mixed systemV'ish background and have found Linux to far outshine any of the SV based OS's I've used. I have limited experience with the BSD variants. I do have some recent BSDi experience and find that I like Linux better than that in many ways.

    Thanks,
    Steve

  7. Where can you get QueSO? by BJH · · Score: 1


    Yeah, I've found it hard to get into too - for the time being, grab it from here. (Please! No /. effect! My provider would kill me...)

  8. TUCOWS by StimpyBoy · · Score: 1

    Adding on to that, the people who run TUCOWS are Unix gurus. TUCOWS was started to serve users of an ISP Internet software. Guess what OS most users use?

    Of course, it has exploded since then...

  9. queso by Mennie · · Score: 1

    [root@zeus /root]# queso beta.altavista.de:21
    194.112.94.251:21 *- Not Listen, try another port
    [root@zeus /root]# queso beta.altavista.de:23
    194.112.94.250:23 *- Not Listen, try another port
    [root@zeus /root]# queso beta.altavista.de:25
    194.112.94.251:25 *- Not Listen, try another port
    [root@zeus /root]# queso beta.altavista.de:110
    194.112.94.250:110 *- Not Listen, try another port
    [root@zeus /root]# queso beta.altavista.de:8080
    194.112.94.251:8080 *- Not Listen, try another port
    [root@zeus /root]# queso beta.altavista.de:98
    194.112.94.250:98 * Linux 2.0.35 to 2.0.9999 :)

    They left the port for linuxconf open!

  10. Computer runs Linux; story at 11 by yobtah · · Score: 1

    Slashdot seems to be at least partially about Linux advocacy. Due to this fact, you might reasonably expect to see articles on positive Linux-related events here. If you aren't comfortable with this idea, don't read the stuff here.

  11. MEEPT!! by The+Glorious+Meept!! · · Score: 1

    THe glorious meept hopes that the German server won't try to invade a machine room next door.

    MEEPT!!