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Charlie Brown was too stupid.
simple: It’s not Windows.
It’s JUST an operating system, not the all-encompassing bloatware that comes from Microsoft.
Free. No other explanation needed. Colleges and universities dropped all commercial operating systems when Unix came along so they could get the source code and then switched to Linux when they could get everything for free. That created a closed bubble where a lot of new ideas were forced to grow. but the operating system itself is still Paleolithic compared to what we should have by now, if OS companies like DEC, and others could have made money innovating their proprietary systems.
Factually wrong. Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) Unix was the defacto Unix for x86 long before anyone even heard the word Linux in Unix circles. But IBM stole their code, by way of a so-called partnership, and then "open sourced" (gave away) that code to Linux because IBM wanted to sell more hardware.
What made HPC take off? NASA, whose job is to explore space, made an amazing Earth-bound advancement. In the mid-1990s a team of programmers came up with a way to cluster x86-based servers for collective processing power for a cheap alternative to expensive, proprietary HPC systems at the time. Dubbed Beowulf, it was not tied to one particular operating system, any free and open source OS would do. But the inventors used Linux, and that started the momentum.
NASA then gave away this supercomputer building code to China, Russia, and others, for free as well. Those countries did not even have a supercompuer at the time. Now China is at the top. Thank IBM and their embargo-busting weapon Linux.
Linux is Unix.
It took off because it was not proprietary, open and free.
Cause you can operate approximately twice the number of CPUs for the same amount of money if you don't have to pay Microsoft for their server-grade Windows operating system?
I’ve built and installed servers for home, my firm, and small organizations. I like FreeBSD for file servers. I seem to be able to get them up and working on Macs and PCs faster than Linux. With that said, I’m having problems with Time Machine on my home FBSD server right now.
For a web server, however, Linux’s directory structure seems to be less confusing than FreeBSD’s. Maybe that’s just due to my inexperience as the setup I’ve done for Web has been strictly intranet (remember that term??). I do think Linux would probably be the better choice for the Javascript web technologies from the past decade or so.
beowulf cluster software
Microsoft=security flaws=temporary fixes= richest man in the world.
Most engineering networks I know about run CentOS.
Clean, capable, fast fast fast.
Never give money to Gates. Never.
It came to dominate because it is made of Unix.
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Can you imagine what 25,000 Windows licenses would go for. Plus, if you’re simulating a nuke, “Blue Screen of Death” takes on a whole other meaning.