Psst hey buddy I got a red-hot tip for ya.... FR RUNS ON LINUX :)
The site www.freerepublic.com is running Apache on Linux.
Quoth Netcraft....
That is probably just a result of posters probably not contributing to FReepaThons and othe promotions here as readily as we should.
Or maybe Linux works for FR? Besides, if they weren't going to use Linux, FreeBSD would be a better choice on x86 than Solaris x86. Then again maybe Sun's enthusiastic support of shipping as many American jobs overseas doesn't exactly make them look patriotic either... Outsourcing half the jobs to India so you can code 24/7 makes sense, but this "let's fire 1 American so we can get 3 Indians" is less than supportive of our countrymen.
They would probably prefer something a little more stable and AMERICAN like a Sun Solaris for x86 solution themselves.
Probably almost as many Indians involved in Solaris. Wasn't one of Sun's founders a student from India? I could be mistaken, but I do recall seeing something to that effect.