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To: abt87

“LINUX runs the Google servers that manage billions of searches each day.”

That’s a disinginuous statement. Google has heavily modified their version of Linux to only include the pieces they needed and they even re-wrote much of it.


79 posted on 10/04/2007 2:08:04 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad
Google has heavily modified their version of Linux to only include the pieces they needed and they even re-wrote much of it.

Which is the nice thing about open-source, of course.
81 posted on 10/04/2007 2:46:32 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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