[Gllug] Assistance with arguments to use Linux!

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 2 13:24:58 UTC 2010


On 2 September 2010 13:45, Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> wrote:
> I'd point out to them that their data will be relying on GNU/Linux,
> and/or perhaps *BSD, to get to the Internet anyway, and it's just a
> question of deciding at what point that transition happens.
>

I'll trot out my tired old Top500 statistics now:
http://www.top500.org/stats/list/35/osfam

Sorry - sending you all off to a well deserved mid-afternoon nap with
boring statistics.


> I seriously doubt that they're running windows on their routers, so you
> could just point out that you're wanting a more flexible layer of router
> to allow for load sharing, etc. near the perimeter that's already
> non-Windows.

Talking about routers, this sounds pretty spiffing:
http://shader.kaist.edu/packetshader/
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