I would love to know their reasons. It is a fairly straight forward LAMP (now FAMP) site, they could have chosen virtually anything to use.
Perhaps they have been fatigued by distro hopping. They were the original pioneers of the sport after all XD
Oh, well. I certainly agree with their choice
First thing that comes to mind: jailsI would love to know their reasons. It is a fairly straight forward LAMP (now FAMP) site, they could have chosen virtually anything to use.
Perhaps they have been fatigued by distro hopping. They were the original pioneers of the sport after all XD
Oh, well. I certainly agree with their choice
That was me. I stole your name.I've never posted to reddit and it's not a site I visit often.
I did see last year where they have a "trihexagonal" that posts there... Wonder where they came up with that?
That's what a name thief would say! Yes? Yes??That was me. I stole your name.
No, that's not me. I don't post there about FreeBSD, I just read about it.
The thief would say they didn't do it, when they weren't accused.That's what a name thief would say! Yes? Yes??
Sorry I could not resist.
just did and noted that a distribution, which I've barely heard of, called "MX Linux", which seems to be something based on Debian is now by far the most "popular" at the moment
That was me. I stole your name.
No, that's not me. I don't post there about FreeBSD, I just read about it.
If counting installations of free (in the beer sense) by amateurs and enthusiasts, that's probably very true. On the other hand, the vast majority of computers in the world are servers or IoT devices (formerly known as embedded), the vast majority of these servers run Linux, and they tend to be very stable in their usage of distros. For the subset that is bought with licensed support, I think RedHat and SUSE together have the lion's share of the market. But a very large fraction of all these servers are used by the FAANGs, which tend to roll their own in-house distributions; in the case of the "N" in the FAANG, part of that is actually based on FreeBSD.Well, that only shows how exchangeable these distros are...
RedHat doesn't survive by giving away free software. It survives (or actually thrives) by selling very good support, mostly to enterprise customers, with the dominant use being servers. Those customers tend to have investments of M$ or G$ into their IT infrastructure. If RedHat were to casually change the underlying distribution technology (like switching to be based on Debian), that would require a huge retooling by its customers, and would be a gigantic transition, with very high costs. Possible, but implausible unless there are really good reasons.It sometimes makes me wonder why Red Hat just don't dump fedora and just rebase RHEL on Debian ...
I always liked Debian a lot. It's what I used until I jumped ship to FreeBSD.The only one that is consistently at 3/4th place is Debian
From what I understand RedHat is focusing pretty heavily on embedded devices and they've done a good amount of development in that area. It's the reason GNU/Linux is the system choice for many of these devices.RedHat doesn't survive by giving away free software.